Braintree Town Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 25021419300 · Norfolk County, MA · pop 4,168
With a score of 4.9/10, tract 25021419300 in Braintree Town, MA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,168 residents. Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Braintree Town and the region
Centroid at 42.2276, -70.9852 · click any tract to drill in
Why Braintree Town scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Braintree Town compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 46
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 34%Socioeconomic
- 75%Household composition
- 50%Racial/ethnic minority
- 40%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. 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
- 0%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.
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)
- 0.0Pre-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
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.
- 12.5%Housing insecurity
- 8.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.4%Food insecurity
- 17.8%SNAP enrollment
- 8.8%Transit barriers
- 5.6%No health insurance
- 17.4%Frequent mental distress
- 28.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Braintree Town
Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.5/10.
Average gross rent is $1,435, 29% below the Braintree Town average. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10.
Cost burden runs 44% here against 48.1% across Norfolk County. It sits 0.7 points below the Norfolk County average of 5.6. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Quincy. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
Nationally it ranks #34,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $102,750, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.3 points cooler.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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Highest-risk tracts in Braintree Town
Top eight tracts in Braintree Town ranked by composite eviction-risk score.