Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #13,349 of 84,120 nationally
Milton Upper Mills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025101001 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 6,346 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 25025101001 sits in the Milton eviction risk Upper Mills area of Boston eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.9/10. Population here is 6,346. Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
6.9
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27%
Stable renters 17%
Owners 56%
Tract context
Occupied units2,276
Renter share43.7%
SVI overall0.86
Poverty rate6.4%
Median income$93,452
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
31
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 42.2721, -71.1017 · click any tract to drill in
Why Milton Upper Mills 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
6.4% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$1,762 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 Milton Upper Mills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 86
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%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
- 1%Grade B
- 98%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)
- 435Total filings over 5 yrs
- 6.96%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.5%Peak (2012)
- 99Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 195Total filings 2020-21
- 4.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.46×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.
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.
- 24.1%Housing insecurity
- 17.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.1%Food insecurity
- 32.7%SNAP enrollment
- 14.8%Transit barriers
- 6.3%No health insurance
- 17.6%Frequent mental distress
- 31.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Milton Upper Mills
62% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Suffolk County average of 47.0%. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1.2/10.
SNAP participation runs 32.7% against 15.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. At $1,762 a month, rents run 18% under 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 435 filings here across 5 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 26.1% against 17.8% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 8.5% of renter households. 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 25025101001
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025101001?
Census tract 25025101001 in the Milton Upper Mills 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 25025101001?
Median gross rent is $1,762/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025101001?
6.4% of residents in tract 25025101001 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,346.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025101001?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 86th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 79th, household 95th, minority 99th, housing 52th.
Q5
Is tract 25025101001 considered part of Milton Upper Mills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025101001 fall within Milton Upper Mills (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025101001?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 435 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025101001 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.96% of renter households, peaking at 8.5% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025101001 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.46× 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 25025101001 struggle to pay rent?
About 24.1% 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. 17.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025101001 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025101001 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 25025101001 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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