Within parent city
96
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally
Brockton Eviction Risk: High
Tract 25023510800 · Plymouth County, MA · pop 8,026
Tract 25023510800 sits in Brockton eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8/10. SNAP participation runs 40.0% against 15.2% nationally.
Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35%
Stable renters 28%
Owners 37%
Tract context
Occupied units2,275
Renter share62.8%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate17.7%
Median income$61,735
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
93
th percentile
Very High
Within state
87
th percentile
High
National
91
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Brockton and the region
Centroid at 42.0844, -71.0282 · 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
17.7% poverty · this tract
4.4
Supply constraint
$1,615 rent vs county FMR
2.5
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: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 78%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%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
- 73%Grade B
- 18%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 123Total filings over 1 yrs
- 10.07%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.1%Peak (2016)
- 123Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
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.
- 29.3%Housing insecurity
- 19.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 33.4%Food insecurity
- 40.0%SNAP enrollment
- 19.0%Transit barriers
- 9.6%No health insurance
- 24.6%Frequent mental distress
- 41.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Brockton
Against the Plymouth County average of 5.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.8 points. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10.
The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Housing insecurity runs 29.3% against 14.2% nationally.
Against Plymouth County at 46.6%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.5/10. Court records carry 123 eviction filings across 1 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2016, when 10.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 10.1% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25023510800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25023510800?
Census tract 25023510800 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 25023510800?
Median gross rent is $1,615/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25023510800?
17.7% of residents in tract 25023510800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 8,026.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25023510800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 82th, household 78th, minority 94th, housing 84th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25023510800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 123 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 25023510800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.07% of renter households, peaking at 10.1% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 25023510800 struggle to pay rent?
About 29.3% 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. 19.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 25023510800 compare to Brockton overall?
Tract 25023510800 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.
Q8
Was tract 25023510800 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.
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