Within county
29
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally
Tract 25017317103 Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 25017317103 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 4,840
Census tract 25017317103 covers part of Middlesex County, MA, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,840. Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 65% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1%
Stable renters 1%
Owners 98%
Tract context
Occupied units1,712
Renter share1.8%
SVI overall0.08
Poverty rate5.0%
Median income$160,865
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within state
35
th percentile
Low
National
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Middlesex County and the region
Centroid at 42.5701, -71.3562 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 25017317103 scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
State baseline
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
5.0% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
State baseline
6.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
State baseline
4.0
Housing court bias
State baseline
5.0
How Tract 25017317103 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 8
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 24%Socioeconomic
- 13%Household composition
- 27%Racial/ethnic minority
- 7%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)
- 5Total filings over 3 yrs
- 1.91%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.3%Peak (2015)
- 2Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 0Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.00×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
- 6.4%Housing insecurity
- 4.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.4%Food insecurity
- 7.1%SNAP enrollment
- 4.8%Transit barriers
- 2.6%No health insurance
- 13.6%Frequent mental distress
- 23.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tract 25017317103
Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.2/10. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points.
Against Middlesex County at 43.0%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.3/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 2.6% against 11.3% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 5 filings here across 3 tracked years. SNAP participation runs 7.1% against 15.2% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2015 at 2.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
At 2% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.7/10. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Model confidence here is 65%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25017317103
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017317103?
Census tract 25017317103 in Middlesex County scores 5.1/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 25017317103?
5.0% of residents in tract 25017317103 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,840.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 25017317103?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 8th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 24th, household 13th, minority 27th, housing 7th.
Q4
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25017317103?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 5 eviction filings across 3 validated years in tract 25017317103 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.91% of renter households, peaking at 2.3% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q5
What share of households in tract 25017317103 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.4% 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. 4.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
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