Census Tract · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally

Haverhill Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 25009260500 · Essex County, MA · pop 3,886

25009260500 is a census tract in Haverhill, MA. It scores 5.7/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 52%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

5.7

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 14% Stable renters 4% Owners 82%

Tract context

Occupied units1,437

Renter share17.8%

SVI overall0.28

Poverty rate7.2%

Median income$112,750

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Haverhill and the region

Centroid at 42.7969, -71.0792 · click any tract to drill in

Why Haverhill scores 5.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Haverhill

6.8

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

6.5

State political climate

Massachusetts legislature & governorship

6.2

Economic stress

7.2% poverty · this tract

1.8

Supply constraint

$2,008 rent vs county FMR

5.2

Rent control risk

Inherited from Haverhill

7.9

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

5.6

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Haverhill

7.9

Housing court bias

Inherited from Haverhill

6.6

How Haverhill compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 28

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

25%Socioeconomic
45%Household composition
46%Racial/ethnic minority
27%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

8%Grade A
41%Grade B
37%Grade C
0%Grade D · redlined

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.

9.5%Housing insecurity
6.2%Utility-shutoff threat
10.7%Food insecurity
11.6%SNAP enrollment
6.5%Transit barriers
4.7%No health insurance
15.2%Frequent mental distress
27.7%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Haverhill

Cost burden runs 79% here against 50.7% across Essex County. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.8/10.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.9/10.

Average gross rent is $2,008, 20% above the Haverhill average. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Haverhill. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #21,564 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 18% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 3.5/10 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.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 25009260500

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25009260500?

Census tract 25009260500 in Haverhill scores 5.7/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 25009260500?

Median gross rent is $2,008/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 79% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 25009260500?

7.2% of residents in tract 25009260500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,886.

How socially vulnerable is tract 25009260500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 28th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 25th, household 45th, minority 46th, housing 27th.

What share of households in tract 25009260500 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.

How does tract 25009260500 compare to Haverhill overall?

Tract 25009260500 scores 5.7/10, lower than the parent city of Haverhill at 6.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Haverhill eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 25009260500 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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 Haverhill

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