Within parent city
80
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #79,124 of 84,120 nationally
Dedham Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 25021402500 · Norfolk County, MA · pop 3,977
How risky is Dedham for landlords? Census tract 25021402500 scores 5.8/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 68% of US census tracts.
About 62% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 28% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $2,193 monthly, set against $120,000 in average yearly household income, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 38% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Risk score
1.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 62%
Tract context
Occupied units1,638
Renter share38.2%
SVI overall0.33
Poverty rate5.1%
Median income$120,000
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
27
th percentile
Low
Within state
14
th percentile
Very Low
National
6
th percentile
Very Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Dedham and the region
Centroid at 42.2538, -71.2024 · click any tract to drill in
Why Dedham scores 1.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Dedham
7.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
5.1% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$2,193 rent vs county FMR
2.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Dedham
7.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Dedham
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Dedham
5.3
How Dedham compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 33
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 19%Socioeconomic
- 26%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 69%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 10%Grade B
- 5%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
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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 6.3%Housing insecurity
- 4.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.3%Food insecurity
- 8.3%SNAP enrollment
- 5.0%Transit barriers
- 3.7%No health insurance
- 12.7%Frequent mental distress
- 28.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Dedham
The score leans hardest on rent-control risk at 7.7/10. 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 Dedham, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Norfolk County average of 5.6 and in line with the Massachusetts statewide average of 5.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 6.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 4.3% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 33rd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
Frequently asked
About tract 25021402500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25021402500?
Census tract 25021402500 in Dedham scores 1.5/10 (Lower 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 25021402500?
Median gross rent is $2,193/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25021402500?
5.1% of residents in tract 25021402500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,977.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25021402500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 33th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 19th, household 26th, minority 37th, housing 69th.
Q5
What share of households in tract 25021402500 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.3% 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. 4.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 25021402500 compare to Dedham overall?
Tract 25021402500 scores 1.5/10, lower than the parent city of Dedham at 5.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Dedham; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7
Was tract 25021402500 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Dedham
Top eight tracts in Dedham ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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