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Census Tract · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally

Leominster Eviction Risk: Elevated

Tract 25027709201 · Worcester County, MA · pop 8,018

With a score of 6/10, tract 25027709201 in Leominster, MA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 8,018 residents. The severe-burden share is 33%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13% Stable renters 13% Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units3,065
Renter share25.5%
SVI overall0.47
Poverty rate8.8%
Median income$93,489

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 10 tracts In Leominster
Moderate
Within county
53 th percentile
Rank, 53rd percentileLowHigh
#90 of 191 tracts In Worcester County
Moderate
Within state
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#811 of 1,613 tracts In Massachusetts
Moderate
National
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#18,163 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Leominster and the region

Centroid at 42.4987, -71.7615 · click any tract to drill in

Why Leominster scores 6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Leominster
6.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.9
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
8.8% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$961 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Leominster
6.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Leominster
7.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Leominster
5.9

How Leominster compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Leominster risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 6.06.0This tracttract 709201Leominster: 6.06.0Leominsterparent cityCounty: 5.85.8Countyavg tract in countyState: 6.26.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 47

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

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 1 yrs
  • 3.55%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.6%Peak (2015)
  • 29Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Leominster

Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. Average gross rent is $961, 29% below the Leominster average. Running cool, economic stress reads 2.2/10.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.7/10. Cost burden runs 50% here against 44.4% across Worcester County.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 29 filings here across 1 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2015 at 3.6% of renter households. In a typical year about 3.6% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $93,489, an unusually wide affordability cushion. It tracks the Worcester County average of 5.8 closely.

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 25027709201

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25027709201?

Census tract 25027709201 in Leominster scores 6/10 (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 25027709201?

Median gross rent is $961/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 25027709201?

8.8% of residents in tract 25027709201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 8,018.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 25027709201?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 47th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 40th, household 54th, minority 38th, housing 55th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25027709201?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 29 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 25027709201 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.55% of renter households, peaking at 3.6% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 25027709201 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.8% 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. 8.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 25027709201 compare to Leominster overall?

Tract 25027709201 scores 6/10, right in line with the parent city of Leominster at 6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Leominster eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Leominster

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

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