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Neighborhood · Ranked #48,956 of 84,120 nationally

Milton Upper Mills Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 25021416200 · Norfolk County, MA · pop 6,991 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Census tract 25021416200 covers part of the Milton Upper Mills area of Milton, MA, and scores 4/10 on landlord eviction risk. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10.

Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10% Stable renters 13% Owners 77%
Tract context
Occupied units2,309
Renter share23.0%
SVI overall0.25
Poverty rate7.4%
Median income$132,433

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Milton Upper Mills
Moderate
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 5 tracts In Milton
Very High
Within county
15 th percentile
Rank, 15th percentileLowHigh
#131 of 154 tracts In Norfolk County
Very Low
Within state
12 th percentile
Rank, 12th percentileLowHigh
#1,415 of 1,613 tracts In Massachusetts
Very Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Milton and the region

Centroid at 42.2545, -71.0959 · click any tract to drill in

Why Milton Upper Mills scores 4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Milton
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
7.4% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,379 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Milton
6.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Milton
3.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Milton
4.9

How Milton Upper Mills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Milton Upper Mills risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.0This tracttract 4162004.4Miltonparent city5.6Countyavg tract in county6.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 25

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)

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  • 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
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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 Milton Upper Mills

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Against the Norfolk County average of 5.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.6 points.

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.9/10. Against Norfolk County at 48.1%, 43% of renters here are cost-burdened.

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.

Nationally it ranks #48,956 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 23% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 3.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $132,433, annual rent is just 12%. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 2.2 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,379, close to the Milton average.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 25021416200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25021416200?

Census tract 25021416200 in the Milton Upper Mills neighborhood scores 4/10 (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 25021416200?

Median gross rent is $1,379/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 25021416200?

7.4% of residents in tract 25021416200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,991.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 25021416200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 25th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 22th, household 35th, minority 73th, housing 21th.
Q5

Is tract 25021416200 considered part of Milton Upper Mills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25021416200 fall within Milton Upper Mills (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 25021416200 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.0% 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. 7.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 25021416200 compare to Milton overall?

Tract 25021416200 scores 4/10, lower than the parent city of Milton at 4.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Milton eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 25021416200 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 Milton

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

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