Within neighborhood
38
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally
Nubian Square Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025081400 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 3,424 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 9.5/10, tract 25025081400 in the Nubian Square area of Boston, MA reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,424. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10.
Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 38%
Stable renters 31%
Owners 31%
Tract context
Occupied units1,244
Renter share69.2%
SVI overall0.59
Poverty rate31.9%
Median income$73,375
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
78
th percentile
High
Within county
93
th percentile
Very High
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3278, -71.0938 · click any tract to drill in
Why Nubian Square scores 9.5
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
31.9% poverty · this tract
8.0
Supply constraint
$1,586 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Nubian Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 59
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 75%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%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
- 100%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)
- 202Total filings over 5 yrs
- 4.56%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.0%Peak (2012)
- 40Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 29% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 113Total filings 2020-21
- 2.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.65×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 Nubian 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.
- 18.7%Housing insecurity
- 13.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.3%Food insecurity
- 27.2%SNAP enrollment
- 14.1%Transit barriers
- 6.2%No health insurance
- 19.2%Frequent mental distress
- 28.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Nubian Square
Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. 69% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
Average gross rent is $1,586, 26% below the Boston average. It sits 1.6 points above the Suffolk County average of 7.9. 56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Suffolk County average of 47.0%.
SNAP participation runs 27.2% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 202 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Filings peaked in 2012 at 6.0% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 4.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 97% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Social vulnerability reads 6.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025081400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025081400?
Census tract 25025081400 in the Nubian Square neighborhood scores 9.5/10 (High 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 25025081400?
Median gross rent is $1,586/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025081400?
31.9% of residents in tract 25025081400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,424.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025081400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 59th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 73th, household 8th, minority 75th, housing 66th.
Q5
Is tract 25025081400 considered part of Nubian Square?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025081400 fall within Nubian Square (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025081400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 202 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025081400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.56% of renter households, peaking at 6.0% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025081400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.65× 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 25025081400 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.7% 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. 13.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025081400 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025081400 scores 9.5/10, higher 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 25025081400 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. 100% 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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