Within parent city
47
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #11,988 of 84,120 nationally
Framingham Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 25017383904 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 5,124
Tract 25017383904 sits in Framingham eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.2/10. It is home to 5,124 residents. 38% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
7.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19%
Stable renters 9%
Owners 72%
Tract context
Occupied units2,150
Renter share28.5%
SVI overall0.29
Poverty rate9.2%
Median income$98,611
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
66
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
68
th percentile
Elevated
National
86
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Framingham and the region
Centroid at 42.3411, -71.4473 · click any tract to drill in
Why Framingham scores 7.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Framingham
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
9.2% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$1,981 rent vs county FMR
2.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Framingham
7.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Framingham
8.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Framingham
6.5
How Framingham compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 29
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 12%Socioeconomic
- 29%Household composition
- 40%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 0Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.00×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 7.1%Housing insecurity
- 4.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.5%Food insecurity
- 8.4%SNAP enrollment
- 5.4%Transit barriers
- 3.3%No health insurance
- 13.3%Frequent mental distress
- 26.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Framingham
Against Middlesex County at 43.0%, 67% of renters here are cost-burdened. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2/10.
Running cool, economic stress reads 2.3/10. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.3% against 11.3% nationally.
Housing insecurity runs 7.1% against 14.2% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 86% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.6/10. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.
Average gross rent is $1,981, close to the Framingham average. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $98,611.
28% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 25017383904
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017383904?
Census tract 25017383904 in Framingham scores 7.2/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 25017383904?
Median gross rent is $1,981/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 67% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25017383904?
9.2% of residents in tract 25017383904 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,124.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25017383904?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 29th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 12th, household 29th, minority 40th, housing 65th.
Q5
What share of households in tract 25017383904 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.1% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 4.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 25017383904 compare to Framingham overall?
Tract 25017383904 scores 7.2/10, higher than the parent city of Framingham at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Framingham eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Framingham
Top eight tracts in Framingham ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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25017383200
8
/ 10 · High
Tract · MA
25017383401
8
/ 10 · High
Tract · MA
25017383402
8
/ 10 · High
Tract · MA
25017383501
8
/ 10 · High
Tract · MA
25017383101
8
/ 10 · High
Tract · MA
25017383102
8
/ 10 · High
Tract · MA
25017384003
7.4
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · MA
25017383300
7.3
/ 10 · Elevated
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