Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #4,622 of 84,120 nationally
Aberdeen Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025000506 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 2,513 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 25025000506 covers part of the Aberdeen area of Boston, MA, and scores 8.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,513. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
8.8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 45%
Stable renters 39%
Owners 16%
Tract context
Occupied units1,321
Renter share84.0%
SVI overall0.35
Poverty rate19.7%
Median income$73,403
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
65
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
67
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
93
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3402, -71.1459 · click any tract to drill in
Why Aberdeen scores 8.8
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
19.7% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$2,126 rent vs county FMR
2.5
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: 35
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 33%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 71%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)
- 16Total filings 2020-21
- 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.35×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.
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
- 5.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.4%Food insecurity
- 10.2%SNAP enrollment
- 7.2%Transit barriers
- 3.5%No health insurance
- 16.4%Frequent mental distress
- 20.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Aberdeen
This is renter territory: 84% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Set annual rent against average income of $73,403 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Suffolk County average of 47.0%. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. It sits 0.9 points above the Suffolk County average of 7.9.
Food insecurity runs 9.4% against 17.8% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.5% against 11.3% nationally. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Brookline. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
That is riskier than roughly 95% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025000506
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025000506?
Census tract 25025000506 in the Aberdeen neighborhood scores 8.8/10 (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 25025000506?
Median gross rent is $2,126/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025000506?
19.7% of residents in tract 25025000506 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,513.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025000506?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 35th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 7th, minority 53th, housing 71th.
Q5
Is tract 25025000506 considered part of Aberdeen?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025000506 fall within Aberdeen (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 25025000506 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.35× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 25025000506 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. 5.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 25025000506 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025000506 scores 8.8/10, 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 25025000506 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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