Aspinwall Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Brookline
Tract 25021400500 · Norfolk County, MA · pop 5,216 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 25021400500 covers part of the Aspinwall Hill area of Brookline, MA, and scores 6.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. 28% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Norfolk County average of 48.1%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Brookline and the region
Centroid at 42.3374, -71.1310 · click any tract to drill in
Why Aspinwall Hill scores 6.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Aspinwall Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 11
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 7%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 38%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%Housing & transportation
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
- 49%Grade B
- 51%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.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 5.6%Housing insecurity
- 3.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.5%Food insecurity
- 5.5%SNAP enrollment
- 4.4%Transit barriers
- 2.6%No health insurance
- 13.7%Frequent mental distress
- 17.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Aspinwall Hill
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
On the high side, local political climate reads 8.3/10. 18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.8/10. Food insecurity runs 5.5% against 17.8% nationally.
It sits 1.1 points above the Norfolk County average of 5.6. SNAP participation runs 5.5% against 15.2% nationally. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Brookline. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
That is riskier than roughly 83% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 25021400500
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Highest-risk tracts in Brookline
Top eight tracts in Brookline ranked by composite eviction-risk score.