Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #14,308 of 84,120 nationally
Buttonwood Village Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025120105 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 2,471 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 25025120105 sits in the Buttonwood Village area of Boston eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.7/10. Population here is 2,471. At $3,501 a month, rents run 63% over what the rest of Boston commands.
Risk score
6.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 5%
Stable renters 8%
Owners 87%
Tract context
Occupied units941
Renter share13.1%
SVI overall0.25
Poverty rate8.8%
Median income$191,397
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
6
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
17
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3087, -71.1263 · click any tract to drill in
Why Buttonwood Village scores 6.7
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
8.8% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$3,501 rent vs county FMR
7.3
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 Buttonwood Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 25
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 13%Socioeconomic
- 40%Household composition
- 38%Racial/ethnic minority
- 43%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 94%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 5Total filings over 3 yrs
- 2.35%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.8%Peak (2012)
- 1Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 100% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 3Total filings 2020-21
- 0.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.86×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
- 5.7%Housing insecurity
- 3.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.8%Food insecurity
- 6.3%SNAP enrollment
- 4.3%Transit barriers
- 2.4%No health insurance
- 11.7%Frequent mental distress
- 21.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Buttonwood Village
The severe-burden share is 33%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Against Suffolk County at 47.0%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. The voucher gap is 23.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.2 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. Adults with no health insurance runs 2.4% against 11.3% nationally.
SNAP participation runs 6.3% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 5 eviction filings across 3 observed years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 2.8% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025120105
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025120105?
Census tract 25025120105 in the Buttonwood Village neighborhood scores 6.7/10 (Elevated 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 25025120105?
Median gross rent is $3,501/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025120105?
8.8% of residents in tract 25025120105 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,471.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025120105?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 25th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 13th, household 40th, minority 38th, housing 43th.
Q5
Is tract 25025120105 considered part of Buttonwood Village?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025120105 fall within Buttonwood Village (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025120105?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 5 eviction filings across 3 validated years in tract 25025120105 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.35% of renter households, peaking at 2.8% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025120105 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.86× 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 25025120105 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.7% 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. 3.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025120105 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025120105 scores 6.7/10, lower 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 25025120105 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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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