Within neighborhood
25
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #14,308 of 84,120 nationally
Downtown Crossing Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025020101 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 4,041 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
25025020101 is a census tract in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, MA. It scores 6.7/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,041 residents. 33% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Suffolk County average of 47.0%.
Risk score
6.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 30%
Owners 56%
Tract context
Occupied units2,388
Renter share44.3%
SVI overall0.07
Poverty rate4.0%
Median income$213,421
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
8
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
12
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3577, -71.0693 · click any tract to drill in
Why Downtown Crossing 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
4.0% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,747 rent vs county FMR
4.7
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 Downtown Crossing compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 7
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 5%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 13%Racial/ethnic minority
- 58%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 51%Grade B
- 34%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)
- 39Total filings over 5 yrs
- 0.52%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.0%Peak (2012)
- 6Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 57% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 12Total filings 2020-21
- 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.35×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 Downtown Crossing. 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.
- 5.1%Housing insecurity
- 3.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 4.3%Food insecurity
- 4.3%SNAP enrollment
- 3.9%Transit barriers
- 2.0%No health insurance
- 13.1%Frequent mental distress
- 16.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Downtown Crossing
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Average gross rent is $2,747, 28% above the Boston average.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Food insecurity runs 4.3% against 17.8% nationally.
Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. Housing insecurity runs 5.1% against 14.2% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 39 evictions over 5 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2012 at 1.0% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 0.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #14,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 1.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Against average income of $213,421, annual rent is just 15%.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025020101
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025020101?
Census tract 25025020101 in the Downtown Crossing 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 25025020101?
Median gross rent is $2,747/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025020101?
4.0% of residents in tract 25025020101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,041.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025020101?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 5th, household 2th, minority 13th, housing 58th.
Q5
Is tract 25025020101 considered part of Downtown Crossing?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025020101 fall within Downtown Crossing (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025020101?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 39 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025020101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.52% of renter households, peaking at 1.0% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025020101 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.35× 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 25025020101 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.1% 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. 3.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025020101 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025020101 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 25025020101 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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