Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally
Hillside Avenue Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Medford
Tract 25017339102 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 3,464 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi
25017339102 is a census tract in the Hillside Avenue Historic District area of Medford, MA. It scores 5.7/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 39%. 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 4%
Stable renters 3%
Owners 93%
Tract context
Occupied units1,258
Renter share7.2%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate2.4%
Median income$141,207
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
15
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
46
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
45
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Medford and the region
Centroid at 42.4414, -71.1124 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hillside Avenue Historic District scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Medford
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
$1,729 rent vs county FMR
1.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Medford
4.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Medford
8.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Medford
4.6
How Hillside Avenue Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 3%Socioeconomic
- 10%Household composition
- 11%Racial/ethnic minority
- 16%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.
- 5%Grade A
- 9%Grade B
- 1%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.
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)
- 0.1Pre-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 Hillside Avenue 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
- 4.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.5%Food insecurity
- 8.5%SNAP enrollment
- 5.4%Transit barriers
- 3.4%No health insurance
- 14.1%Frequent mental distress
- 25.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Hillside Avenue Historic District
The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10. Average gross rent is $1,729, 31% below the Medford average.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.1/10. 52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Middlesex County average of 43.0%. Food insecurity runs 7.5% against 17.8% nationally.
Adults with no health insurance runs 3.4% against 11.3% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 7% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.
Social vulnerability reads 1.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $141,207, annual rent is just 15%.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25017339102
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017339102?
Census tract 25017339102 in the Hillside Avenue Historic District 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 25017339102?
Median gross rent is $1,729/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25017339102?
2.4% of residents in tract 25017339102 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,464.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25017339102?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 3th, household 10th, minority 11th, housing 16th.
Q5
Is tract 25017339102 considered part of Hillside Avenue Historic District?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25017339102 fall within Hillside Avenue Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 1.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 25017339102 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.00× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 25017339102 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. 4.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 25017339102 compare to Medford overall?
Tract 25017339102 scores 5.7/10, lower than the parent city of Medford at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Medford eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 25017339102 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 Medford
Top eight tracts in Medford ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
Tract · MA
Hillside Avenue Historic District
8
/ 10 · High
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South Medford
8
/ 10 · High
Tract · MA
Ten Hills
7.4
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · MA
West Somerville
7.3
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · MA
Medford Square
7.2
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · MA
Old Ship Street Historic District
6.8
/ 10 · Elevated
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West Somerville
6.6
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · MA
Old Ship Street Historic District
6.3
/ 10 · Elevated
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