Abington Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 25023520202 · Plymouth County, MA · pop 6,262
Tract 25023520202 sits in Abington, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.6/10. Population here is 6,262. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.3/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Abington and the region
Centroid at 42.1263, -70.9780 · click any tract to drill in
Why Abington scores 5.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Abington compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 21%Socioeconomic
- 17%Household composition
- 19%Racial/ethnic minority
- 11%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
- 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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 14Total filings over 1 yrs
- 1.93%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.9%Peak (2016)
- 14Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
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.
- 10.9%Housing insecurity
- 6.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.4%Food insecurity
- 13.5%SNAP enrollment
- 7.0%Transit barriers
- 4.2%No health insurance
- 17.5%Frequent mental distress
- 29.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Abington
21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.9/10.
Against Plymouth County at 46.6%, 42% of renters here are cost-burdened. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.2/10.
Court records carry 14 eviction filings across 1 observed years. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.2% against 11.3% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,912, 11% above the Abington average.
Filings peaked in 2016 at 1.9% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Brockton. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 1.9% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 1.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least 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.
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