Norfolk Downs Eviction Risk: Elevated , Quincy
Tract 25021417501 · Norfolk County, MA · pop 5,512 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 25021417501 sits in the Norfolk Downs area of Quincy eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.7/10. It is home to 5,512 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 Quincy and the region
Centroid at 42.2798, -71.0160 · click any tract to drill in
Why Norfolk Downs scores 7.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Norfolk Downs compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 55
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 53%Household composition
- 66%Racial/ethnic minority
- 50%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
- 94%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.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.4%Food insecurity
- 14.5%SNAP enrollment
- 7.8%Transit barriers
- 5.1%No health insurance
- 15.4%Frequent mental distress
- 25.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Norfolk Downs
28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Norfolk County average of 5.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.1 points.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2/10. Against Norfolk County at 48.1%, 41% of renters here are cost-burdened.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Quincy. 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 #9,433 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Average gross rent is $2,148, close to the Quincy average.
Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $99,800. 40% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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.
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