Within parent city
77
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally
Brockton Eviction Risk: High
Tract 25023511200 · Plymouth County, MA · pop 5,381
25023511200 is a census tract in Brockton, MA. It scores 8/10 for landlords. At $687 a month, rents run 58% under what the rest of Brockton commands.
Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17%
Stable renters 29%
Owners 54%
Tract context
Occupied units1,969
Renter share46.6%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate15.2%
Median income$69,603
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
92
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 42.0783, -70.9884 · 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
15.2% poverty · this tract
3.8
Supply constraint
$687 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: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 77%Racial/ethnic minority
- 99%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
- 78%Grade C
- 2%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)
- 21Total filings over 1 yrs
- 2.41%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.4%Peak (2016)
- 21Filings 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.
- 23.5%Housing insecurity
- 15.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 27.1%Food insecurity
- 31.8%SNAP enrollment
- 14.7%Transit barriers
- 9.3%No health insurance
- 21.6%Frequent mental distress
- 40.4%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 main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. SNAP participation runs 31.8% against 15.2% nationally.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. 37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Plymouth County average of 46.6%.
18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10.
Food insecurity runs 27.1% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 21 evictions over 1 years of observation.
The worst year on record was 2016, when 2.4% of renter households were served. 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.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 25023511200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25023511200?
Census tract 25023511200 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 25023511200?
Median gross rent is $687/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25023511200?
15.2% of residents in tract 25023511200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,381.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25023511200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 99th, minority 77th, housing 99th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25023511200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 21 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 25023511200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.41% of renter households, peaking at 2.4% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 25023511200 struggle to pay rent?
About 23.5% 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. 15.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 25023511200 compare to Brockton overall?
Tract 25023511200 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 25023511200 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. 2% 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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