Orvis Road Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Arlington
Tract 25017356701 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 5,891 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 25017356701 covers part of the Orvis Road Historic District area of Arlington, MA, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,891 residents. Cost burden runs 30% here against 43.0% across Middlesex County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Arlington and the region
Centroid at 42.4084, -71.1438 · click any tract to drill in
Why Orvis Road Historic District scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Orvis Road Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 28
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 13%Socioeconomic
- 13%Household composition
- 46%Racial/ethnic minority
- 74%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
- 70%Grade B
- 15%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)
- 49Total filings over 5 yrs
- 0.50%Avg annual filing rate
- 0.6%Peak (2012)
- 8Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 0Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.8Pre-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 Orvis Road Historic District. 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.
- 7.0%Housing insecurity
- 4.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.5%Food insecurity
- 7.2%SNAP enrollment
- 5.0%Transit barriers
- 2.7%No health insurance
- 13.9%Frequent mental distress
- 20.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Orvis Road Historic District
What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.3/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.9/10. 15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Food insecurity runs 6.5% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 49 filings here across 5 tracked years.
It sits 0.9 points below the Middlesex County average of 6.3. Housing insecurity runs 7.0% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2012 at 0.6% of renter households.
At $2,255 a month, rents run 8% over what the rest of Arlington commands. 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 0.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Social vulnerability reads 3.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. 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.
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