Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #2,922 of 84,120 nationally
Inner Belt Eviction Risk: High , Cambridge
Tract 25017352101 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 3,245 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
25017352101 is a census tract in the Inner Belt area of Cambridge, MA. It scores 9.4/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,245. It sits 3.1 points above the Middlesex County average of 6.3.
Risk score
9.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 38%
Stable renters 46%
Owners 16%
Tract context
Occupied units2,023
Renter share83.4%
SVI overall0.35
Poverty rate12.0%
Median income$114,408
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
59
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
97
th percentile
Very High
Within state
96
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Cambridge and the region
Centroid at 42.3716, -71.0740 · click any tract to drill in
Why Inner Belt scores 9.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Cambridge
9.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
12.0% poverty · this tract
3.0
Supply constraint
$3,224 rent vs county FMR
6.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cambridge
8.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cambridge
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cambridge
8.0
How Inner Belt compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 35
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 27%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 69%Racial/ethnic minority
- 95%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
- 0%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 306Total filings over 5 yrs
- 8.07%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.4%Peak (2016)
- 83Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 453% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 0Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.2Pre-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 Inner Belt. 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.
- 8.5%Housing insecurity
- 4.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.3%Food insecurity
- 7.8%SNAP enrollment
- 6.6%Transit barriers
- 3.5%No health insurance
- 15.4%Frequent mental distress
- 17.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Inner Belt
What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10. Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
This is renter territory: 83% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Set annual rent against average income of $114,408 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.
On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10. Average gross rent is $3,224, 16% above the Cambridge average. The filing record is not thin: 306 evictions over 5 years of observation.
Adults with no health insurance runs 3.5% against 11.3% nationally. The voucher gap is 13.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. SNAP participation runs 7.8% against 15.2% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2016 at 7.4% of renter households. 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.
In a typical year about 8.1% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25017352101
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017352101?
Census tract 25017352101 in the Inner Belt neighborhood scores 9.4/10 (High 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 25017352101?
Median gross rent is $3,224/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25017352101?
12.0% of residents in tract 25017352101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,245.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25017352101?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 35th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 27th, household 1th, minority 69th, housing 95th.
Q5
Is tract 25017352101 considered part of Inner Belt?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25017352101 fall within Inner Belt (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25017352101?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 306 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25017352101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.07% of renter households, peaking at 7.4% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25017352101 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.
Q8
What share of households in tract 25017352101 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. 4.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25017352101 compare to Cambridge overall?
Tract 25017352101 scores 9.4/10, higher than the parent city of Cambridge at 8.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cambridge eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 25017352101 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. 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.
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