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Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Huron Village Eviction Risk: High , Cambridge

Tract 25017354601 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 1,716 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

25017354601 is a census tract in the Huron Village area of Cambridge, MA. It scores 9.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 1,716 residents. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 3.6 points.

Risk score
9.9
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 41% Stable renters 41% Owners 18%
Tract context
Occupied units852
Renter share81.7%
SVI overall0.42
Poverty rate19.8%
Median income$95,714

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Huron Village
Very High
Within parent city
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 33 tracts In Cambridge
High
Within county
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#8 of 357 tracts In Middlesex County
Very High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1,613 tracts In Massachusetts
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Cambridge and the region

Centroid at 42.3908, -71.1491 · click any tract to drill in

Why Huron Village scores 9.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Cambridge
9.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
19.8% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$2,855 rent vs county FMR
5.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cambridge
8.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cambridge
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cambridge
8.0

How Huron Village compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Huron Village risk score vs. parent city / county / state9.9This tracttract 3546018.9Cambridgeparent city6.3Countyavg tract in county6.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 42

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 0Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.00×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2023-11-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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

Within Huron Village. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Huron Village

The dominant input is local political climate at 9/10. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

82% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $95,714, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

Cost burden runs 50% here against 43.0% across Middlesex County. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.8% against 11.3% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.8/10. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 3.7 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 25017354601

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017354601?

Census tract 25017354601 in the Huron Village neighborhood scores 9.9/10 (High 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 25017354601?

Median gross rent is $2,855/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 25017354601?

19.8% of residents in tract 25017354601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,716.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 25017354601?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 42th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 15th, household 9th, minority 58th, housing 97th.
Q5

Is tract 25017354601 considered part of Huron Village?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25017354601 fall within Huron Village (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 25017354601 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.00× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 25017354601 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.9% 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. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 25017354601 compare to Cambridge overall?

Tract 25017354601 scores 9.9/10, higher than the parent city of Cambridge at 8.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cambridge eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 25017354601 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 8% 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 Cambridge

Top eight tracts in Cambridge ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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