Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #2,922 of 84,120 nationally
North Brighton Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025000102 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 3,979 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
25025000102 is a census tract in the North Brighton area of Boston, MA. It scores 9.4/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,979 residents. This is renter territory: 85% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Risk score
9.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 42%
Stable renters 43%
Owners 15%
Tract context
Occupied units1,826
Renter share85.2%
SVI overall0.70
Poverty rate26.4%
Median income$79,000
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
73
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
76
th percentile
High
Within state
96
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3591, -71.1440 · click any tract to drill in
Why North Brighton scores 9.4
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
26.4% poverty · this tract
6.6
Supply constraint
$2,189 rent vs county FMR
2.7
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 North Brighton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 70
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 64%Socioeconomic
- 43%Household composition
- 68%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%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
- 5%Grade C
- 82%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)
- 74Total filings 2020-21
- 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.40×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. 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.
- 15.3%Housing insecurity
- 9.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.7%Food insecurity
- 20.5%SNAP enrollment
- 11.4%Transit barriers
- 6.5%No health insurance
- 18.4%Frequent mental distress
- 25.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in North Brighton
What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. Set annual rent against average income of $79,000 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. It sits 1.5 points above the Suffolk County average of 7.9.
Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 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 97th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.3/10.
Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 3.2 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025000102
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025000102?
Census tract 25025000102 in the North Brighton neighborhood scores 9.4/10 (High 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 25025000102?
Median gross rent is $2,189/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025000102?
26.4% of residents in tract 25025000102 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,979.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025000102?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 70th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 64th, household 43th, minority 68th, housing 79th.
Q5
Is tract 25025000102 considered part of North Brighton?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025000102 fall within North Brighton (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 25025000102 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.40× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 25025000102 struggle to pay rent?
About 15.3% 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. 9.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 25025000102 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025000102 scores 9.4/10, higher 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 25025000102 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. 82% 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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