Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally
Bugg Village Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025000603 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 1,650 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
25025000603 is a census tract in the Bugg Village area of Boston, MA. It scores 9.5/10 for landlords. Population here is 1,650. Annualized rent equals 61% of average household income of $33,229, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 57%
Stable renters 32%
Owners 11%
Tract context
Occupied units1,084
Renter share89.6%
SVI overall0.89
Poverty rate43.6%
Median income$33,229
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
83
th percentile
High
Within county
77
th percentile
High
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3476, -71.1449 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bugg 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
43.6% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,690 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Bugg Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 80%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%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.
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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 72Total filings 2020-21
- 1.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.69×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 Bugg 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.
- 20.3%Housing insecurity
- 14.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.9%Food insecurity
- 32.3%SNAP enrollment
- 15.4%Transit barriers
- 8.1%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 32.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bugg Village
Cost burden runs 64% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.
The poverty rate is 44%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The severe-burden share is 30%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. SNAP participation runs 32.3% against 15.2% nationally.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. It sits 1.6 points above the Suffolk County average of 7.9.
Average gross rent is $1,690, 21% below the Boston average. Food insecurity runs 26.9% against 17.8% nationally. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Boston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025000603
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025000603?
Census tract 25025000603 in the Bugg 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 25025000603?
Median gross rent is $1,690/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025000603?
43.6% of residents in tract 25025000603 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,650.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025000603?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 89th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 75th, household 80th, minority 83th, housing 93th.
Q5
Is tract 25025000603 considered part of Bugg Village?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025000603 fall within Bugg Village (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 25025000603 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.69× 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.
Q7
What share of households in tract 25025000603 struggle to pay rent?
About 20.3% 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. 14.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 25025000603 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025000603 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.
Q9
Was tract 25025000603 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.
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