Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally
Brockton Eviction Risk: High
Tract 25023510504 · Plymouth County, MA · pop 2,388
Tract 25023510504 sits in Brockton eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8/10. It is home to 2,388 residents. Cost burden runs roughly two in three here against 46.6% across Plymouth County.
Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 43%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 35%
Tract context
Occupied units912
Renter share65.5%
SVI overall0.88
Poverty rate23.0%
Median income$39,932
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
88
th percentile
High
Within state
87
th percentile
High
National
91
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Brockton and the region
Centroid at 42.0949, -71.0332 · click any tract to drill in
Why Brockton scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Brockton
7.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.9
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
23.0% poverty · this tract
5.7
Supply constraint
$693 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Brockton
7.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Brockton
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Brockton
7.1
How Brockton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 67%Socioeconomic
- 78%Household composition
- 84%Racial/ethnic minority
- 97%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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.
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.
- 24.3%Housing insecurity
- 17.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.0%Food insecurity
- 37.4%SNAP enrollment
- 16.4%Transit barriers
- 8.8%No health insurance
- 21.0%Frequent mental distress
- 44.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Brockton
At $693 a month, rents run 58% under what the rest of Brockton commands. It sits 2.8 points above the Plymouth County average of 5.2. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. 65% 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. Disability prevalence runs 44.5% against 31.5% nationally.
The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10. Housing insecurity runs 24.3% against 14.2% nationally.
The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 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.
That is riskier than roughly 91% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25023510504
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25023510504?
Census tract 25023510504 in Brockton scores 8/10 (High 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 25023510504?
Median gross rent is $693/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 66% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25023510504?
23.0% of residents in tract 25023510504 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,388.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25023510504?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 88th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 67th, household 78th, minority 84th, housing 97th.
Q5
What share of households in tract 25023510504 struggle to pay rent?
About 24.3% 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. 17.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 25023510504 compare to Brockton overall?
Tract 25023510504 scores 8/10, higher than the parent city of Brockton at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Brockton eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7
Was tract 25023510504 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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 Brockton
Top eight tracts in Brockton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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