Within parent city
17
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #12,481 of 84,120 nationally
Malden Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 25017341903 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 7,046
Tract 25017341903 sits in Malden eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.1/10. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.
Risk score
7.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31%
Stable renters 45%
Owners 24%
Tract context
Occupied units3,023
Renter share76.0%
SVI overall0.39
Poverty rate10.8%
Median income$125,380
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
64
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
67
th percentile
Elevated
National
85
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Malden and the region
Centroid at 42.4393, -71.0318 · click any tract to drill in
Why Malden scores 7.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Malden
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
10.8% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
$2,495 rent vs county FMR
3.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Malden
6.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Malden
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Malden
6.4
How Malden compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 39
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 30%Socioeconomic
- 12%Household composition
- 63%Racial/ethnic minority
- 73%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 42%Grade C
- 58%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)
- 0.0Pre-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.
- 12.1%Housing insecurity
- 7.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.6%Food insecurity
- 13.4%SNAP enrollment
- 8.3%Transit barriers
- 4.8%No health insurance
- 16.1%Frequent mental distress
- 22.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Malden
76% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.3/10. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10.
The severe-burden share is 10%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points. At $2,495 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Malden commands.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. Nationally it ranks #12,481 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 4.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25017341903
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017341903?
Census tract 25017341903 in Malden scores 7.1/10 (Elevated 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 25017341903?
Median gross rent is $2,495/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25017341903?
10.8% of residents in tract 25017341903 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,046.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25017341903?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 39th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 30th, household 12th, minority 63th, housing 73th.
Q5
What share of households in tract 25017341903 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.1% 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. 7.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 25017341903 compare to Malden overall?
Tract 25017341903 scores 7.1/10, right in line with the parent city of Malden at 7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Malden eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7
Was tract 25017341903 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 58% 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.
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