Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally
Oak Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025000201 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 4,375 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 25025000201 sits in the Oak Square area of Boston eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.3/10. 27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34%
Stable renters 38%
Owners 28%
Tract context
Occupied units1,845
Renter share72.6%
SVI overall0.46
Poverty rate14.7%
Median income$114,271
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
38
th percentile
Low
Within county
40
th percentile
Low
Within state
70
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3541, -71.1612 · click any tract to drill in
Why Oak Square scores 7.3
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
14.7% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$2,724 rent vs county FMR
4.6
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 Oak Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 46
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 59%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 55%Racial/ethnic minority
- 70%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 92%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.
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 40Total filings over 5 yrs
- 0.86%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.2%Peak (2014)
- 5Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 50% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 31Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.86×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 Oak Square. 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.
- 10.9%Housing insecurity
- 6.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.5%Food insecurity
- 12.2%SNAP enrollment
- 8.2%Transit barriers
- 4.6%No health insurance
- 18.4%Frequent mental distress
- 20.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Oak Square
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
At $2,724 a month, rents run 27% over what the rest of Boston commands. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Court records carry 40 eviction filings across 5 observed years.
It sits 0.6 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. The worst year on record was 2014, when 1.2% of renter households were served. 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.
In a typical year about 0.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.2/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025000201
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025000201?
Census tract 25025000201 in the Oak Square neighborhood scores 7.3/10 (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 25025000201?
Median gross rent is $2,724/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025000201?
14.7% of residents in tract 25025000201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,375.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025000201?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 46th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 59th, household 5th, minority 55th, housing 70th.
Q5
Is tract 25025000201 considered part of Oak Square?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025000201 fall within Oak Square (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025000201?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 40 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025000201 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.86% of renter households, peaking at 1.2% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025000201 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.86× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 25025000201 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.9% 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. 6.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025000201 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025000201 scores 7.3/10, 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.
Q10
Was tract 25025000201 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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.
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