Corey Hill Eviction Risk: High , Brookline
Tract 25021400401 · Norfolk County, MA · pop 4,139 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
25021400401 is a census tract in the Corey Hill area of Brookline, MA. It scores 8.5/10 for landlords. It sits 2.9 points above the Norfolk County average of 5.6.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Brookline and the region
Centroid at 42.3425, -71.1281 · click any tract to drill in
Why Corey Hill scores 8.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Corey Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 47
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 34%Socioeconomic
- 40%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 67%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 Corey Hill. 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
- 4.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.2%Food insecurity
- 9.2%SNAP enrollment
- 5.7%Transit barriers
- 3.6%No health insurance
- 14.0%Frequent mental distress
- 23.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Corey Hill
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. This is renter territory: 78% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. At $2,393 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Brookline commands.
Adults with no health insurance runs 3.6% against 11.3% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 7.0% 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 #5,413 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.2/10.
Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 2.3 points hotter. 46% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
Annual rent works out to 32% of average household income of $90,383.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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Highest-risk tracts in Brookline
Top eight tracts in Brookline ranked by composite eviction-risk score.