Avon Hill Eviction Risk: High , Cambridge
Tract 25017354500 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 2,296 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 25017354500 covers part of the Avon Hill area of Cambridge, MA, and scores 8.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,296 residents. The dominant input is local political climate at 9/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Cambridge and the region
Centroid at 42.3847, -71.1250 · click any tract to drill in
Why Avon Hill scores 8.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Avon Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 13
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 10%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 45%Racial/ethnic minority
- 45%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 62%Grade B
- 38%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.
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)
- 27Total filings over 5 yrs
- 0.72%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.2%Peak (2014)
- 3Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 0Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.3Pre-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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Avon Hill. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 5.3%Housing insecurity
- 3.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 4.8%Food insecurity
- 4.9%SNAP enrollment
- 4.1%Transit barriers
- 2.3%No health insurance
- 12.1%Frequent mental distress
- 19.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Avon Hill
On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. It sits 1.8 points above the Middlesex County average of 6.3. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.
16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Disability prevalence runs 19.4% against 31.5% nationally. At $2,340 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Cambridge commands.
Housing insecurity runs 5.3% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 27 filings here across 5 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 1.2% of renter households. 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.
In a typical year about 0.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #7,382 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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