Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally
Brookline Village Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025080900 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 3,384 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
25025080900 is a census tract in the Brookline Village area of Boston, MA. It scores 9.5/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,384 residents. 33% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 43%
Stable renters 47%
Owners 10%
Tract context
Occupied units1,540
Renter share89.7%
SVI overall0.43
Poverty rate36.2%
Median income$66,042
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
89
th percentile
High
Within county
86
th percentile
High
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3323, -71.1017 · click any tract to drill in
Why Brookline Village scores 9.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Boston
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.2
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
36.2% poverty · this tract
9.0
Supply constraint
$2,173 rent vs county FMR
2.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Boston
8.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Boston
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Boston
8.0
How Brookline Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 43
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 50%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 57%Racial/ethnic minority
- 82%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 100%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)
- 48Total filings over 5 yrs
- 0.71%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.1%Peak (2015)
- 7Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 42% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 49Total filings 2020-21
- 1.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.46×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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Brookline Village. 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.
- 12.5%Housing insecurity
- 8.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.9%Food insecurity
- 18.1%SNAP enrollment
- 11.8%Transit barriers
- 4.5%No health insurance
- 19.4%Frequent mental distress
- 24.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Brookline Village
90% 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. The dominant input is economic stress at 9/10. Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $66,042, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 48 filings here across 5 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2015, when 1.1% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.
In a typical year about 0.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 97% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025080900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025080900?
Census tract 25025080900 in the Brookline Village neighborhood scores 9.5/10 (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 25025080900?
Median gross rent is $2,173/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025080900?
36.2% of residents in tract 25025080900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,384.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025080900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 43th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 50th, household 2th, minority 57th, housing 82th.
Q5
Is tract 25025080900 considered part of Brookline Village?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025080900 fall within Brookline Village (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025080900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 48 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025080900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.71% of renter households, peaking at 1.1% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025080900 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.46× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 25025080900 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.5% 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. 8.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025080900 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025080900 scores 9.5/10, higher than the parent city of Boston at 8.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Boston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 25025080900 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 100% 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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