Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #13,349 of 84,120 nationally
Dock Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025030400 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 3,842 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
25025030400 is a census tract in the Dock Square area of Boston, MA. It scores 6.9/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,842. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Risk score
6.9
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34%
Stable renters 43%
Owners 23%
Tract context
Occupied units2,319
Renter share76.5%
SVI overall0.35
Poverty rate10.3%
Median income$112,123
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
32
th percentile
Low
Within county
31
th percentile
Low
Within state
65
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3637, -71.0537 · click any tract to drill in
Why Dock Square scores 6.9
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
10.3% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$2,601 rent vs county FMR
4.2
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 Dock Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 35
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 27%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 22%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%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
- 58%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)
- 33Total filings over 5 yrs
- 0.58%Avg annual filing rate
- 0.7%Peak (2014)
- 8Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 33% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 12Total filings 2020-21
- 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.23×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 Dock Square. 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.
- 6.6%Housing insecurity
- 4.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.9%Food insecurity
- 6.2%SNAP enrollment
- 5.1%Transit barriers
- 2.6%No health insurance
- 15.4%Frequent mental distress
- 17.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Dock Square
This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
Disability prevalence runs 17.3% against 31.5% nationally. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Food insecurity runs 5.9% against 17.8% nationally.
At $2,601 a month, rents run 21% over what the rest of Boston commands. Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 33 filings here across 5 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 0.7% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.
In a typical year about 0.6% of renter households face a filing.
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 25025030400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025030400?
Census tract 25025030400 in the Dock Square neighborhood scores 6.9/10 (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 25025030400?
Median gross rent is $2,601/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025030400?
10.3% of residents in tract 25025030400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,842.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025030400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 35th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 27th, household 8th, minority 22th, housing 86th.
Q5
Is tract 25025030400 considered part of Dock Square?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025030400 fall within Dock Square (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025030400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 33 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025030400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.58% of renter households, peaking at 0.7% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025030400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.23× 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 25025030400 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.6% 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. 4.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025030400 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025030400 scores 6.9/10, 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 25025030400 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. 58% 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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