Packard's Corner Eviction Risk: Elevated , Brookline
Tract 25021400300 · Norfolk County, MA · pop 4,508 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 25021400300 covers part of the Packard's Corner area of Brookline, MA, and scores 6.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,508 residents. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Brookline and the region
Centroid at 42.3470, -71.1270 · click any tract to drill in
Why Packard's Corner scores 6.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Packard's Corner compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 26
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 16%Socioeconomic
- 19%Household composition
- 50%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade B
- 100%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 0Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.0Pre-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 Packard's Corner. 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.
- 5.8%Housing insecurity
- 3.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.9%Food insecurity
- 5.9%SNAP enrollment
- 4.6%Transit barriers
- 2.6%No health insurance
- 13.7%Frequent mental distress
- 18.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Packard's Corner
Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Against the Norfolk County average of 5.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.3/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 2.6% against 11.3% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 5.8% against 14.2% nationally.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Brookline. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #13,349 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. 45% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 25021400300
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