Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #59,654 of 84,120 nationally
Woburn Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Lower , Reading
Tract 25017334200 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 4,145 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 25017334200 sits in the Woburn Street Historic District area of Reading, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.4/10. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.9 points.
Risk score
3.4
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10%
Stable renters 19%
Owners 71%
Tract context
Occupied units1,704
Renter share29.3%
SVI overall0.21
Poverty rate2.4%
Median income$145,000
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
1
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
4
th percentile
Very Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Reading and the region
Centroid at 42.5264, -71.1180 · click any tract to drill in
Why Woburn Street Historic District scores 3.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Reading
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
2.4% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,453 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Reading
3.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Reading
4.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Reading
3.1
How Woburn Street Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 21
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 9%Socioeconomic
- 61%Household composition
- 10%Racial/ethnic minority
- 38%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)
- 29Total filings over 5 yrs
- 1.43%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.1%Peak (2012)
- 7Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 5 months.
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
Within Woburn Street Historic District. 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.
- 7.4%Housing insecurity
- 4.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.3%Food insecurity
- 8.4%SNAP enrollment
- 5.3%Transit barriers
- 3.1%No health insurance
- 14.8%Frequent mental distress
- 23.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Woburn Street Historic District
Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Average gross rent is $1,453, 27% below the Reading average. Cost burden runs 34% here against 43.0% across Middlesex County.
Running hot, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Food insecurity runs 7.3% against 17.8% nationally. The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 29 filings here across 5 tracked years. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.1% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2012, when 2.1% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.9/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25017334200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017334200?
Census tract 25017334200 in the Woburn Street Historic District neighborhood scores 3.4/10 (Lower 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 25017334200?
Median gross rent is $1,453/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 34% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25017334200?
2.4% of residents in tract 25017334200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,145.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25017334200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 21th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 9th, household 61th, minority 10th, housing 38th.
Q5
Is tract 25017334200 considered part of Woburn Street Historic District?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25017334200 fall within Woburn Street Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25017334200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 29 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25017334200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.43% of renter households, peaking at 2.1% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 25017334200 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.4% 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. 4.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 25017334200 compare to Reading overall?
Tract 25017334200 scores 3.4/10, lower than the parent city of Reading at 4.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Reading; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Reading
Top eight tracts in Reading ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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