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Neighborhood · Ranked #16,571 of 84,120 nationally

Shakerhill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Woburn

Tract 25017333100 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 7,618 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Tract 25017333100 sits in the Shakerhill area of Woburn eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.3/10. Population here is 7,618. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.4/10.

Risk score
6.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 11% Stable renters 16% Owners 73%
Tract context
Occupied units3,088
Renter share26.9%
SVI overall0.41
Poverty rate5.8%
Median income$116,864

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Shakerhill
Moderate
Within parent city
14 th percentile
Rank, 14th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 8 tracts In Woburn
Very Low
Within county
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#152 of 357 tracts In Middlesex County
Elevated
Within state
54 th percentile
Rank, 54th percentileLowHigh
#746 of 1,613 tracts In Massachusetts
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Woburn and the region

Centroid at 42.4652, -71.1834 · click any tract to drill in

Why Shakerhill scores 6.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Woburn
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
5.8% poverty · this tract
1.4
Supply constraint
$2,122 rent vs county FMR
2.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Woburn
7.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Woburn
8.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Woburn
5.9

How Shakerhill compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Shakerhill risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.3This tracttract 3331006.6Woburnparent city6.3Countyavg tract in county6.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 41

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

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)

  • 128Total filings over 5 yrs
  • 2.97%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.8%Peak (2013)
  • 21Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2012 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 25017333100
Filings dropped 30% 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
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.

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 Shakerhill

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Food insecurity runs 7.5% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 128 filings here across 5 tracked years.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.1% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2013 at 3.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 3.0% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 80th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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

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 25017333100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017333100?

Census tract 25017333100 in the Shakerhill neighborhood scores 6.3/10 (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 25017333100?

Median gross rent is $2,122/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 42% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 25017333100?

5.8% of residents in tract 25017333100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,618.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 25017333100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 41th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 23th, household 21th, minority 34th, housing 86th.
Q5

Is tract 25017333100 considered part of Shakerhill?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25017333100 fall within Shakerhill (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25017333100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 128 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25017333100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.97% of renter households, peaking at 3.8% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 25017333100 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.4% 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. 4.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 25017333100 compare to Woburn overall?

Tract 25017333100 scores 6.3/10, lower than the parent city of Woburn at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Woburn eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Woburn

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

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