Neighborhood · Ranked #14,308 of 84,120 nationally

Mount Vernon Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

Tract 25025040600 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 3,758 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Census tract 25025040600 covers part of the Mount Vernon Street Historic District area of Boston, MA, and scores 6.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,758 residents. Average gross rent is $3,044, 42% above the Boston average.

Risk score

6.7

Elevated

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 22% Stable renters 32% Owners 46%

Tract context

Occupied units1,942

Renter share53.8%

SVI overall0.16

Poverty rate3.8%

Median income$160,929

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Boston and the region

Centroid at 42.3832, -71.0698 · click any tract to drill in

Why Mount Vernon Street Historic District scores 6.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local 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

3.8% poverty · this tract

1.0

Supply constraint

$3,044 rent vs county FMR

5.7

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 Mount Vernon Street Historic District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 16

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

6%Socioeconomic
4%Household composition
34%Racial/ethnic minority
78%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
19%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)

29Total filings over 5 yrs
0.96%Avg annual filing rate
1.6%Peak (2016)
10Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2012 to 2016

Filings climbed 900% over the past 5 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

92Total filings 2020-21
2.0Avg monthly (observed)
0.4Pre-pandemic baseline
4.66×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2023-11-01

Pandemic filings ran above 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.

7.3%Housing insecurity
4.7%Utility-shutoff threat
6.3%Food insecurity
6.8%SNAP enrollment
5.1%Transit barriers
2.7%No health insurance
15.3%Frequent mental distress
16.0%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Mount Vernon Street Historic District

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. The severe-burden share is 25%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Disability prevalence runs 16.0% against 31.5% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

Cost burden runs 40% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County. It sits 1.2 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9.

Court records carry 29 eviction filings across 5 observed years. SNAP participation runs 6.8% against 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2016, when 1.6% of renter households were served.

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 1.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 83% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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 25025040600

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025040600?

Census tract 25025040600 in the Mount Vernon Street Historic District 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.

What is the average rent in tract 25025040600?

Median gross rent is $3,044/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 25025040600?

3.8% of residents in tract 25025040600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,758.

How socially vulnerable is tract 25025040600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 16th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 6th, household 4th, minority 34th, housing 78th.

Is tract 25025040600 considered part of Mount Vernon Street Historic District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025040600 fall within Mount Vernon Street Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025040600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 29 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025040600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.96% of renter households, peaking at 1.6% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 25025040600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 4.66× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.

What share of households in tract 25025040600 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.3% 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. 4.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 25025040600 compare to Boston overall?

Tract 25025040600 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 25025040600 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. 19% 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.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Boston

Top eight tracts in Boston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org