Central Square Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Stoneham
Tract 25017337202 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 5,166 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 25017337202 sits in the Central Square Historic District area of Stoneham, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.3/10. 44% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Stoneham and the region
Centroid at 42.4908, -71.1080 · click any tract to drill in
Why Central Square Historic District scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Central Square Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 43
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 20%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%Housing & transportation
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)
- 52Total filings over 5 yrs
- 1.60%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.9%Peak (2014)
- 12Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Central Square Historic District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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
- 4.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.9%Food insecurity
- 7.7%SNAP enrollment
- 5.0%Transit barriers
- 3.0%No health insurance
- 13.8%Frequent mental distress
- 24.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Central Square Historic District
Cost burden runs 59% here against 43.0% across Middlesex County. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10.
On the high side, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.
Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 52 filings here across 5 tracked years.
Adults with no health insurance runs 3.0% against 11.3% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 6.8% against 14.2% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 1.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.
Of its three components the household composition 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.
About tract 25017337202
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Highest-risk tracts in Stoneham
Top eight tracts in Stoneham ranked by composite eviction-risk score.