Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #16,571 of 84,120 nationally
Chatham Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 25001010600 · Barnstable County, MA · pop 3,247 · 33% of tract blocks fall in Chatham
Census tract 25001010600 covers part of Chatham, MA, and scores 6.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,247 residents. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10.
Risk score
6.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 5%
Owners 88%
Tract context
Occupied units1,629
Renter share12.1%
SVI overall0.36
Poverty rate7.6%
Median income$80,298
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
91
th percentile
Very High
Within state
54
th percentile
Moderate
National
80
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chatham and the region
Centroid at 41.6995, -69.9562 · click any tract to drill in
Why Chatham scores 6.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Chatham
6.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
7.6% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$982 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Chatham
7.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Chatham
4.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Chatham
6.4
How Chatham compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 36
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 26%Socioeconomic
- 62%Household composition
- 4%Racial/ethnic minority
- 55%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 11Total filings over 2 yrs
- 1.86%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.0%Peak (2015)
- 5Filings in 2016 (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.
- 5.6%Housing insecurity
- 4.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.7%Food insecurity
- 8.0%SNAP enrollment
- 4.5%Transit barriers
- 3.2%No health insurance
- 11.8%Frequent mental distress
- 30.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Chatham
Cost burden runs 58% here against 48.4% across Barnstable County. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.9/10.
Average gross rent is $982, 25% below the Chatham average. Against the Barnstable County average of 4.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.
Food insecurity runs 6.7% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.7/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 11 filings here across 2 tracked years. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.2% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 2.0% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 1.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 80% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 12% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
Social vulnerability reads 4.2/10 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 25001010600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25001010600?
Census tract 25001010600 in Chatham scores 6.3/10 (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 25001010600?
Median gross rent is $982/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25001010600?
7.6% of residents in tract 25001010600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,247.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25001010600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 36th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 26th, household 62th, minority 4th, housing 55th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25001010600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 11 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 25001010600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.86% of renter households, peaking at 2.0% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 25001010600 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.6% 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. 4.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 25001010600 compare to Chatham overall?
Tract 25001010600 scores 6.3/10, higher than the parent city of Chatham at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Chatham; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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