Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #6,330 of 84,120 nationally
Aberdeen Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025000505 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 2,117 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
25025000505 is a census tract in the Aberdeen area of Boston, MA. It scores 8.3/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
8.3
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 41%
Stable renters 39%
Owners 20%
Tract context
Occupied units1,024
Renter share79.9%
SVI overall0.69
Poverty rate15.9%
Median income$80,556
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
57
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
58
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
90
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3432, -71.1411 · click any tract to drill in
Why Aberdeen scores 8.3
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
15.9% poverty · this tract
4.0
Supply constraint
$2,071 rent vs county FMR
2.3
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 Aberdeen compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 69
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 48%Socioeconomic
- 46%Household composition
- 60%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%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
- 100%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 33Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.79×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 Aberdeen. 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.
- 8.6%Housing insecurity
- 5.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.4%Food insecurity
- 9.9%SNAP enrollment
- 7.0%Transit barriers
- 3.6%No health insurance
- 15.9%Frequent mental distress
- 22.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Aberdeen
This is renter territory: 80% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Food insecurity runs 9.4% against 17.8% nationally.
Against Suffolk County at 47.0%, about half of renters here are cost-burdened. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.6% against 11.3% nationally. 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.
On the national scale it lands near the 92nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.2/10.
Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025000505
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025000505?
Census tract 25025000505 in the Aberdeen neighborhood scores 8.3/10 (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 25025000505?
Median gross rent is $2,071/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025000505?
15.9% of residents in tract 25025000505 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,117.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025000505?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 69th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 48th, household 46th, minority 60th, housing 93th.
Q5
Is tract 25025000505 considered part of Aberdeen?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025000505 fall within Aberdeen (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 25025000505 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.79× 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 25025000505 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.6% 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. 5.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 25025000505 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025000505 scores 8.3/10, right in line with 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 25025000505 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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