Fall River Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 25005641000 · Bristol County, MA · pop 2,469
How risky is Fall River in Bristol County for landlords? Census tract 25005641000 scores 7.1/10, the Elevated tier. It lands near the 96th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 52% of renter households, a severe level, and 13% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $958 monthly, set against $31,385 in average yearly household income, roughly 37% of income at the averages. About 98% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fall River and the region
Centroid at 41.7031, -71.1661 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fall River scores 6.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Fall River compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 72
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 52%Racial/ethnic minority
- 29%Housing & transportation
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)
- 69Total filings over 1 yrs
- 5.91%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.9%Peak (2016)
- 69Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 24.6%Housing insecurity
- 17.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 33.6%Food insecurity
- 44.0%SNAP enrollment
- 17.4%Transit barriers
- 11.8%No health insurance
- 24.3%Frequent mental distress
- 46.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Fall River
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 9.7/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Fall River eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Bristol County average of 6.2 and above the Massachusetts statewide average of 5.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 24.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 17.3% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 72nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 25005641000
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Highest-risk tracts in Fall River
Top eight tracts in Fall River ranked by composite eviction-risk score.