Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
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Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally
Mount Auburn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Belmont
Tract 25017357300 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 3,302 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
With a score of 5.2/10, tract 25017357300 in the Mount Auburn area of Belmont, MA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.
Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 33%
Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units1,305
Renter share47.7%
SVI overall0.07
Poverty rate2.3%
Median income$163,393
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
29
th percentile
Low
Within county
33
th percentile
Low
Within state
37
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Belmont and the region
Centroid at 42.3807, -71.1600 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mount Auburn scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Belmont
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
2.3% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,591 rent vs county FMR
4.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Belmont
4.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Belmont
7.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Belmont
3.4
How Mount Auburn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 7
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 1%Socioeconomic
- 26%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 20%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 96%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)
- 13Total filings over 5 yrs
- 0.51%Avg annual filing rate
- 0.6%Peak (2013)
- 3Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 200% over the past 5 months.
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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Mount Auburn. 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.
- 6.1%Housing insecurity
- 3.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.6%Food insecurity
- 5.8%SNAP enrollment
- 4.4%Transit barriers
- 2.4%No health insurance
- 13.0%Frequent mental distress
- 18.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mount Auburn
31% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Middlesex County average of 43.0%. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points.
Running cool, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10. The severe-burden share is 11%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 13 filings here across 5 tracked years. Housing insecurity runs 6.1% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
The worst year on record was 2013, when 0.6% of renter households were served. 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.
On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.6/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25017357300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25017357300?
Census tract 25017357300 in the Mount Auburn neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 25017357300?
Median gross rent is $2,591/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25017357300?
2.3% of residents in tract 25017357300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,302.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25017357300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 1th, household 26th, minority 49th, housing 20th.
Q5
Is tract 25017357300 considered part of Mount Auburn?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25017357300 fall within Mount Auburn (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25017357300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 13 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25017357300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.51% of renter households, peaking at 0.6% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25017357300 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 25017357300 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.1% 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. 3.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25017357300 compare to Belmont overall?
Tract 25017357300 scores 5.2/10, lower than the parent city of Belmont at 6.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Belmont; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 25017357300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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