Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally

Arlington Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 25017356500 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 7,292 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Tract 25017356500 sits in the Arlington Heights area of Arlington eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. Population here is 7,292. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10.

Risk score

5.1

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 13% Stable renters 15% Owners 72%

Tract context

Occupied units2,986

Renter share27.9%

SVI overall0.33

Poverty rate5.1%

Median income$134,943

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Arlington and the region

Centroid at 42.4243, -71.1854 · click any tract to drill in

Why Arlington Heights scores 5.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Arlington

8.3

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.3

State political climate

Massachusetts legislature & governorship

6.2

Economic stress

5.1% poverty · this tract

1.3

Supply constraint

$1,410 rent vs county FMR

1.0

Rent control risk

Inherited from Arlington

3.9

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

6.0

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Arlington

8.0

Housing court bias

Inherited from Arlington

3.6

How Arlington Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 33

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

10%Socioeconomic
57%Household composition
41%Racial/ethnic minority
62%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

0%Grade A
24%Grade B
69%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)

31Total filings over 5 yrs
0.73%Avg annual filing rate
1.3%Peak (2012)
5Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2012 to 2016

Filings dropped 55% over the past 5 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

0Total filings 2020-21
0.0Avg monthly (observed)
0.4Pre-pandemic baseline
0.00×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2023-11-01

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 Arlington Heights. 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.

6.8%Housing insecurity
4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
6.8%Food insecurity
7.4%SNAP enrollment
4.9%Transit barriers
2.9%No health insurance
13.3%Frequent mental distress
22.2%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Arlington Heights

Average gross rent is $1,410, 32% below the Arlington average. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10.

13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 1.2 points below the Middlesex County average of 6.3.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 31 filings here across 5 tracked years. Adults with no health insurance runs 2.9% against 11.3% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.4% against 15.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 1.3% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.

That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 25017356500

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017356500?

Census tract 25017356500 in the Arlington Heights neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 25017356500?

Median gross rent is $1,410/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 25017356500?

5.1% of residents in tract 25017356500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,292.

How socially vulnerable is tract 25017356500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 33th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 10th, household 57th, minority 41th, housing 62th.

Is tract 25017356500 considered part of Arlington Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25017356500 fall within Arlington Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25017356500?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 31 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25017356500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.73% of renter households, peaking at 1.3% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 25017356500 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.

What share of households in tract 25017356500 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.8% 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. 4.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 25017356500 compare to Arlington overall?

Tract 25017356500 scores 5.1/10, lower than the parent city of Arlington at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Arlington eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Q10

Was tract 25017356500 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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 Arlington

Top eight tracts in Arlington ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org