Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #19,618 of 84,120 nationally
Northwest Harwich Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 25001011002 · Barnstable County, MA · pop 4,220 · 92% of tract blocks fall in Northwest Harwich
Census tract 25001011002 covers part of Northwest Harwich, MA, and scores 5.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,220. Severe burden reaches 77%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.9
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 2%
Owners 90%
Tract context
Occupied units1,813
Renter share9.7%
SVI overall0.30
Poverty rate7.2%
Median income$93,924
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
80
th percentile
High
Within state
48
th percentile
Moderate
National
77
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Northwest Harwich and the region
Centroid at 41.6936, -70.1053 · click any tract to drill in
Why Northwest Harwich scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Northwest Harwich
6.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
7.2% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$3,501 rent vs county FMR
9.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Northwest Harwich
9.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Northwest Harwich
3.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Northwest Harwich
7.0
How Northwest Harwich compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 30
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 34%Socioeconomic
- 30%Household composition
- 29%Racial/ethnic minority
- 37%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)
- 12Total filings over 2 yrs
- 2.48%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.5%Peak (2016)
- 7Filings 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.
- 7.5%Housing insecurity
- 5.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.2%Food insecurity
- 9.4%SNAP enrollment
- 5.3%Transit barriers
- 3.5%No health insurance
- 14.0%Frequent mental distress
- 27.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Northwest Harwich
Cost burden runs 82% here against 48.4% across Barnstable County. What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 9.9/10.
The voucher gap is 49.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. At $3,501 a month, rents run 41% over what the rest of Northwest Harwich commands.
Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.6/10. Set annual rent against average income of $93,924 and the ratio lands at 45%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.8/10.
It sits 1.1 points above the Barnstable County average of 4.8. Food insecurity runs 8.2% against 17.8% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 12 evictions over 2 years of observation. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.5% against 11.3% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2016 at 3.5% of renter households. In a typical year about 2.5% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25001011002
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25001011002?
Census tract 25001011002 in Northwest Harwich scores 5.9/10 (Moderate 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 25001011002?
Median gross rent is $3,501/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 82% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25001011002?
7.2% of residents in tract 25001011002 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,220.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25001011002?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 30th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 34th, household 30th, minority 29th, housing 37th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25001011002?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 12 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 25001011002 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.48% of renter households, peaking at 3.5% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 25001011002 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.5% 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. 5.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 25001011002 compare to Northwest Harwich overall?
Tract 25001011002 scores 5.9/10, right in line with the parent city of Northwest Harwich at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Northwest Harwich; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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