Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #14,308 of 84,120 nationally
Lower Allston Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025000101 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 1,734 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
With a score of 6.7/10, tract 25025000101 in the Lower Allston area of Boston, MA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,734 residents. 29% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Suffolk County average of 47.0%.
Risk score
6.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%
Stable renters 53%
Owners 25%
Tract context
Occupied units552
Renter share75.7%
SVI overall0.07
Poverty rate9.3%
Median income$151,466
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
24
th percentile
Low
Within county
24
th percentile
Low
Within state
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3609, -71.1331 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lower Allston scores 6.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Boston
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.2
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
9.3% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$2,625 rent vs county FMR
4.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Boston
8.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Boston
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Boston
8.0
How Lower Allston compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 7
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 19%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 46%Racial/ethnic minority
- 37%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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.
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)
- 15Total filings 2020-21
- 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.71×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Lower Allston. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 8.2%Housing insecurity
- 5.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.7%Food insecurity
- 7.4%SNAP enrollment
- 6.3%Transit barriers
- 3.2%No health insurance
- 16.1%Frequent mental distress
- 16.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Lower Allston
What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. This is renter territory: 76% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.8% against 31.5% nationally. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Average gross rent is $2,625, 22% above the Boston average.
Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. SNAP participation runs 7.4% against 15.2% nationally. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Boston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 1.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025000101
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025000101?
Census tract 25025000101 in the Lower Allston neighborhood scores 6.7/10 (Elevated 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 25025000101?
Median gross rent is $2,625/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 29% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025000101?
9.3% of residents in tract 25025000101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,734.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025000101?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 19th, household 1th, minority 46th, housing 37th.
Q5
Is tract 25025000101 considered part of Lower Allston?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025000101 fall within Lower Allston (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 25025000101 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.71× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 25025000101 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.2% 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. 5.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 25025000101 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025000101 scores 6.7/10, lower than the parent city of Boston at 8.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Boston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 25025000101 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 100% 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.
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