Within parent city
17
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #32,842 of 84,120 nationally
Melrose Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 25017336300 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 6,921
With a score of 5/10, tract 25017336300 in Melrose, MA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. 14% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well under the Middlesex County average of 43.0%.
Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 2%
Stable renters 12%
Owners 86%
Tract context
Occupied units2,582
Renter share13.7%
SVI overall0.11
Poverty rate3.8%
Median income$160,750
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
23
th percentile
Low
Within state
32
th percentile
Low
National
61
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Melrose and the region
Centroid at 42.4498, -71.0374 · click any tract to drill in
Why Melrose scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Melrose
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
3.8% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,157 rent vs county FMR
2.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Melrose
6.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Melrose
6.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Melrose
4.3
How Melrose compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 11
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 4%Socioeconomic
- 37%Household composition
- 20%Racial/ethnic minority
- 24%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 14%Grade B
- 49%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 29Total filings over 5 yrs
- 1.35%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.8%Peak (2016)
- 8Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 33% over the past 5 months.
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.
- 6.8%Housing insecurity
- 4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.4%Food insecurity
- 7.2%SNAP enrollment
- 4.9%Transit barriers
- 2.7%No health insurance
- 14.1%Frequent mental distress
- 21.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Melrose
Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. It sits 1.3 points below the Middlesex County average of 6.3.
Food insecurity runs 6.4% against 17.8% nationally. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 29 filings here across 5 tracked years. Housing insecurity runs 6.8% against 14.2% nationally. At $2,157 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Melrose commands.
Filings peaked in 2016 at 1.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Malden. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 1.3% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
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 25017336300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017336300?
Census tract 25017336300 in Melrose scores 5/10 (Moderate 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 25017336300?
Median gross rent is $2,157/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 14% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25017336300?
3.8% of residents in tract 25017336300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,921.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25017336300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 11th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 4th, household 37th, minority 20th, housing 24th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25017336300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 29 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25017336300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.35% of renter households, peaking at 1.8% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 25017336300 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.8% 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. 4.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 25017336300 compare to Melrose overall?
Tract 25017336300 scores 5/10, lower than the parent city of Melrose at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Melrose eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 25017336300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Melrose
Top eight tracts in Melrose ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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