Quincy Center Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 25021417902 · Norfolk County, MA · pop 3,762 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
25021417902 is a census tract in the Quincy Center area of Quincy, MA. It scores 7.8/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,762 residents. Against Norfolk County at 48.1%, 25% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Quincy and the region
Centroid at 42.2463, -70.9907 · click any tract to drill in
Why Quincy Center scores 7.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Quincy Center compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 69
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 34%Socioeconomic
- 65%Household composition
- 60%Racial/ethnic minority
- 95%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
- 38%Grade B
- 62%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 Quincy Center. 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.
- 11.9%Housing insecurity
- 7.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.8%Food insecurity
- 16.0%SNAP enrollment
- 8.5%Transit barriers
- 5.6%No health insurance
- 16.8%Frequent mental distress
- 26.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Quincy Center
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. It sits 2.2 points above the Norfolk County average of 5.6.
On the high side, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2/10.
Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.2/10. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,984, close to the Quincy average.
Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $110,000. 56% 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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Highest-risk tracts in Quincy
Top eight tracts in Quincy ranked by composite eviction-risk score.