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Neighborhood · Ranked #5,730 of 84,120 nationally

Audubon Circle Eviction Risk: High , Brookline

Tract 25021400100 · Norfolk County, MA · pop 5,329 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

With a score of 8.4/10, tract 25021400100 in the Audubon Circle area of Brookline, MA reads high for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,329 residents. It sits 2.8 points above the Norfolk County average of 5.6.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37% Stable renters 28% Owners 35%
Tract context
Occupied units2,546
Renter share64.7%
SVI overall0.59
Poverty rate15.8%
Median income$105,083

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Audubon Circle
Moderate
Within parent city
79 th percentile
Rank, 79th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 15 tracts In Brookline
High
Within county
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#10 of 154 tracts In Norfolk County
Very High
Within state
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#155 of 1,613 tracts In Massachusetts
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Brookline and the region

Centroid at 42.3468, -71.1126 · click any tract to drill in

Why Audubon Circle scores 8.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Brookline
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
15.8% poverty · this tract
3.9
Supply constraint
$2,737 rent vs county FMR
4.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Brookline
5.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Brookline
9.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Brookline
5.5

How Audubon Circle compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Audubon Circle risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.4This tracttract 4001007.1Brooklineparent city5.6Countyavg tract in county6.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 59

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

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.

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 0Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.00×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2023-11-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Audubon Circle

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Against Norfolk County at 48.1%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Food insecurity runs 9.8% against 17.8% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.9% against 11.3% nationally. 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.

That is riskier than roughly 93% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $2,737, close to the Brookline average.

Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $105,083. 65% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 25021400100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25021400100?

Census tract 25021400100 in the Audubon Circle neighborhood scores 8.4/10 (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 25021400100?

Median gross rent is $2,737/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 25021400100?

15.8% of residents in tract 25021400100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,329.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 25021400100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 59th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 15th, minority 59th, housing 90th.
Q5

Is tract 25021400100 considered part of Audubon Circle?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25021400100 fall within Audubon Circle (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 25021400100 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. 5.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 25021400100 compare to Brookline overall?

Tract 25021400100 scores 8.4/10, higher than the parent city of Brookline at 7.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Brookline eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 25021400100 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Brookline

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

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