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Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally

Kimball Towers and Court Eviction Risk: Moderate , Woburn

Tract 25017332202 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 6,530 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

Tract 25017332202 sits in the Kimball Towers and Court area of Burlington, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.7/10. Population here is 6,530. Severe burden reaches 29%. 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 15% Stable renters 25% Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units2,836
Renter share39.6%
SVI overall0.24
Poverty rate8.4%
Median income$126,094

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 5 tracts In Kimball Towers and Court
Very Low
Within parent city
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 6 tracts In Woburn
High
Within county
46 th percentile
Rank, 46th percentileLowHigh
#195 of 357 tracts In Middlesex County
Moderate
Within state
45 th percentile
Rank, 45th percentileLowHigh
#887 of 1,613 tracts In Massachusetts
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Woburn and the region

Centroid at 42.5083, -71.1799 · click any tract to drill in

Why Kimball Towers and Court scores 5.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Woburn
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
8.4% poverty · this tract
2.1
Supply constraint
$2,728 rent vs county FMR
4.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Woburn
6.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Woburn
5.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Woburn
4.7

How Kimball Towers and Court compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Kimball Towers and Court risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.7This tracttract 3322026.6Woburnparent city6.3Countyavg tract in county6.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 24

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

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 0Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.00×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2023-11-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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

Within Kimball Towers and Court. 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 Kimball Towers and Court

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 2.1/10. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10.

37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Middlesex County average of 43.0%. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Food insecurity runs 8.9% against 17.8% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.5% against 11.3% nationally.

That is riskier than roughly 74% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Middlesex County average of 6.3 closely. Average gross rent is $2,728, close to the Burlington average.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $126,094.

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 25017332202

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017332202?

Census tract 25017332202 in the Kimball Towers and Court neighborhood 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.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 25017332202?

Median gross rent is $2,728/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 25017332202?

8.4% of residents in tract 25017332202 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,530.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 25017332202?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 24th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 22th, household 11th, minority 42th, housing 52th.
Q5

Is tract 25017332202 considered part of Kimball Towers and Court?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25017332202 fall within Kimball Towers and Court (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 25017332202 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.5% 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. 5.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 25017332202 compare to Woburn overall?

Tract 25017332202 scores 5.7/10, lower than the parent city of Woburn at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Woburn eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Woburn

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

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