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Weir Village Eviction Risk: Elevated , Taunton

Tract 25005614101 · Bristol County, MA · pop 6,745 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

With a score of 6.5/10, tract 25005614101 in the Weir Village area of Taunton, MA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 6,745 residents. Severe burden reaches 46%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

6.5

Elevated

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 18% Owners 64%

Tract context

Occupied units2,704

Renter share35.7%

SVI overall0.50

Poverty rate11.1%

Median income$76,017

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Taunton and the region

Centroid at 41.8860, -71.0683 · click any tract to drill in

Why Weir Village scores 6.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Taunton

6.0

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

5.6

State political climate

Massachusetts legislature & governorship

6.2

Economic stress

11.1% poverty · this tract

2.8

Supply constraint

$1,684 rent vs county FMR

5.4

Rent control risk

Inherited from Taunton

7.2

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

6.4

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Taunton

7.7

Housing court bias

Inherited from Taunton

6.8

How Weir Village compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 50

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

37%Socioeconomic
80%Household composition
36%Racial/ethnic minority
48%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)

54Total filings over 1 yrs
5.31%Avg annual filing rate
5.3%Peak (2016)
54Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Weir Village. 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.

14.6%Housing insecurity
9.3%Utility-shutoff threat
15.9%Food insecurity
19.1%SNAP enrollment
9.1%Transit barriers
5.7%No health insurance
19.8%Frequent mental distress
31.0%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Weir Village

At $1,684 a month, rents run 27% over what the rest of Taunton commands. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 7.7/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.2/10.

Cost burden runs about half here against 45.9% across Bristol County. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.2/10.

The filing record is not thin: 54 evictions over 1 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2016 at 5.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.3% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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 25005614101

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25005614101?

Census tract 25005614101 in the Weir Village neighborhood scores 6.5/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 25005614101?

Median gross rent is $1,684/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 25005614101?

11.1% of residents in tract 25005614101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,745.

How socially vulnerable is tract 25005614101?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 50th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 37th, household 80th, minority 36th, housing 48th.

Is tract 25005614101 considered part of Weir Village?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25005614101 fall within Weir Village (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25005614101?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 54 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 25005614101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.31% of renter households, peaking at 5.3% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

What share of households in tract 25005614101 struggle to pay rent?

About 14.6% 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. 9.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 25005614101 compare to Taunton overall?

Tract 25005614101 scores 6.5/10, higher than the parent city of Taunton at 6.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Taunton eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Taunton

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

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org