Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally
Brookline Village Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025081001 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 4,816 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 25025081001 covers part of the Brookline Village area of Boston, MA, and scores 9.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,816 residents. Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 57%
Stable renters 38%
Owners 5%
Tract context
Occupied units2,495
Renter share95.6%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate36.2%
Median income$48,022
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
82
th percentile
High
Within county
85
th percentile
High
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3346, -71.1068 · 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
9.1
Supply constraint
$1,759 rent vs county FMR
1.2
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: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 77%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%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
- 68%Grade C
- 32%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)
- 197Total filings over 5 yrs
- 1.92%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.6%Peak (2015)
- 33Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 30% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 123Total filings 2020-21
- 2.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.73×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. 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.
- 18.8%Housing insecurity
- 12.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 27.1%Food insecurity
- 30.3%SNAP enrollment
- 16.0%Transit barriers
- 8.0%No health insurance
- 20.2%Frequent mental distress
- 32.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Brookline Village
96% 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. Annualized rent equals 44% of average household income of $48,022, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is economic stress at 9.1/10.
Against Suffolk County at 47.0%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.2/10.
SNAP participation runs 30.3% against 15.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. Average gross rent is $1,759, 18% below the Boston average. Food insecurity runs 27.1% against 17.8% nationally.
Court records carry 197 eviction filings across 5 observed years. The worst year on record was 2015, when 2.6% of renter households were served.
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 25025081001
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025081001?
Census tract 25025081001 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 25025081001?
Median gross rent is $1,759/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025081001?
36.2% of residents in tract 25025081001 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,816.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025081001?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 79th, household 73th, minority 77th, housing 83th.
Q5
Is tract 25025081001 considered part of Brookline Village?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025081001 fall within Brookline Village (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025081001?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 197 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025081001 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.92% of renter households, peaking at 2.6% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025081001 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.73× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 25025081001 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.8% 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. 12.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025081001 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025081001 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 25025081001 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. 32% 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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