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Census Tract · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally

Lynn Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 25009205400 · Essex County, MA · pop 5,454

Tract 25009205400 sits in Lynn eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. Against Essex County at 50.7%, 82% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7% Stable renters 1% Owners 92%
Tract context
Occupied units1,742
Renter share8.2%
SVI overall0.45
Poverty rate6.9%
Median income$120,823

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#22 of 22 tracts In Lynn
Very Low
Within county
49 th percentile
Rank, 49th percentileLowHigh
#89 of 173 tracts In Essex County
Moderate
Within state
47 th percentile
Rank, 47th percentileLowHigh
#858 of 1,613 tracts In Massachusetts
Moderate
National
76 th percentile
Rank, 76th percentileLowHigh
#20,506 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lynn and the region

Centroid at 42.4929, -70.9925 · click any tract to drill in

Why Lynn scores 5.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Lynn
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.5
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
6.9% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$2,080 rent vs county FMR
5.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lynn
8.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lynn
9.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lynn
7.2

How Lynn compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Lynn risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.8This tracttract 2054006.6Lynnparent city6.0Countyavg tract in county6.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 45

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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 Lynn

Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.7/10. At $2,080 a month, rents run 21% over what the rest of Lynn commands.

Food insecurity runs 10.8% against 17.8% nationally. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Saugus. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

That is riskier than roughly 76% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 8% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Essex County average of 6.0 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 25009205400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25009205400?

Census tract 25009205400 in Lynn scores 5.8/10 (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 25009205400?

Median gross rent is $2,080/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 82% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 25009205400?

6.9% of residents in tract 25009205400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,454.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 25009205400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 45th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 25th, household 58th, minority 42th, housing 67th.
Q5

What share of households in tract 25009205400 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.5% 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. 6.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 25009205400 compare to Lynn overall?

Tract 25009205400 scores 5.8/10, lower than the parent city of Lynn at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lynn eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7

Was tract 25009205400 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Lynn

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

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