Quincy Center Eviction Risk: High
Tract 25021417703 · Norfolk County, MA · pop 2,304 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 25021417703 covers part of the Quincy Center area of Quincy, MA, and scores 8.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,304 residents. It sits 2.9 points above the Norfolk County average of 5.6.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Quincy and the region
Centroid at 42.2493, -70.9984 · click any tract to drill in
Why Quincy Center scores 8.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Quincy Center compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 80%Household composition
- 58%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%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
- 0%Grade B
- 100%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
Within Quincy Center. 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.
- 10.5%Housing insecurity
- 6.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.2%Food insecurity
- 16.1%SNAP enrollment
- 8.2%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 15.0%Frequent mental distress
- 32.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Quincy Center
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. The severe-burden share is 28%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 87% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.
On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.1/10. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $62,083, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. At $1,743 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Quincy commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
Nationally it ranks #5,413 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.1/10. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 2.3 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 51% of renters.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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