Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,080 of 84,120 nationally
Ten Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Somerville
Tract 25017339803 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 4,022 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 25017339803 covers Ten Hills in Somerville in Massachusetts. Home to 4,022 residents, it scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #39,305 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 35% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 21% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $3,429 a month while the average household earns $109,922 a year, roughly 37% of income at the averages. Renters make up 81% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1-10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28%
Stable renters 53%
Owners 19%
Tract context
Occupied units1,977
Renter share81.0%
SVI overall0.25
Poverty rate14.0%
Median income$109,922
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
69
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
61
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
40
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Somerville and the region
Centroid at 42.4056, -71.0777 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ten Hills scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Somerville
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
14.0% poverty · this tract
3.5
Supply constraint
$3,429 rent vs county FMR
7.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Somerville
4.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Somerville
8.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Somerville
4.6
How Ten Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 25
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 34%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 57%Racial/ethnic minority
- 60%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
- 0%Grade B
- 11%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 · Princeton Eviction Lab
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.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020-2021)
- 0Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.9Pre-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
Within Ten Hills. 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.
- 8.8%Housing insecurity
- 5.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.1%Food insecurity
- 9.1%SNAP enrollment
- 6.6%Transit barriers
- 3.5%No health insurance
- 15.4%Frequent mental distress
- 18.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Ten Hills
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 8.9/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Somerville eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Middlesex County average of 5.2 and below the Massachusetts statewide average of 5.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
During 2020 and 2021, eviction filings here ran at about 0.00x the pre-COVID monthly baseline, well below the pre-pandemic norm, the signature of an eviction moratorium at work.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
Frequently asked
About tract 25017339803
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017339803?
Census tract 25017339803 in the Ten Hills neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (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 25017339803?
Median gross rent is $3,429/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25017339803?
14.0% of residents in tract 25017339803 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,022.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25017339803?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 25th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 34th, household 2th, minority 57th, housing 60th.
Q5
Is tract 25017339803 considered part of Ten Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25017339803 fall within Ten Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 25017339803 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 25017339803 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.8% 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. 5.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 25017339803 compare to Somerville overall?
Tract 25017339803 scores 5.7/10, higher than the parent city of Somerville at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Somerville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 25017339803 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.
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