Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally
Packard's Corner Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025000807 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 3,079 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 25025000807 covers part of the Packard's Corner area of Boston, MA, and scores 9.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,079 residents. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.
Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 60% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0%
Stable renters 0%
Owners 100%
Tract context
SVI overall-10.00
Poverty rate64.5%
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
82
th percentile
High
Within county
82
th percentile
High
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3525, -71.1169 · click any tract to drill in
Why Packard's Corner 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
64.5% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Packard's Corner compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: -1,000
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- -1,000%Socioeconomic
- -1,000%Household composition
- 61%Racial/ethnic minority
- -1,000%Housing & transportation
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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 1Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.00×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 Packard's Corner. 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.
- 27.6%Housing insecurity
- 19.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 38.3%Food insecurity
- 46.6%SNAP enrollment
- 25.0%Transit barriers
- 8.8%No health insurance
- 31.2%Frequent mental distress
- 35.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Packard's Corner
SNAP participation runs 46.6% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 65%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Food insecurity runs 38.3% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points.
Nationally it ranks #2,657 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 3.3 points hotter. Model confidence here is 60%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point.
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 25025000807
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025000807?
Census tract 25025000807 in the Packard's Corner 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 poverty rate in tract 25025000807?
64.5% of residents in tract 25025000807 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,079.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025000807?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the -1000th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic -1000th, household -1000th, minority 61th, housing -1000th.
Q4
Is tract 25025000807 considered part of Packard's Corner?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025000807 fall within Packard's Corner (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q5
What share of households in tract 25025000807 struggle to pay rent?
About 27.6% 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. 19.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 25025000807 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025000807 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.
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/ 10 · Very High
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/ 10 · Very High
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