Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #6,330 of 84,120 nationally
Corey Hill Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025000701 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 4,349 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 8.3/10, tract 25025000701 in the Corey Hill area of Boston, MA reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,349. 89% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.
Risk score
8.3
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35%
Stable renters 54%
Owners 11%
Tract context
Occupied units2,103
Renter share88.8%
SVI overall0.54
Poverty rate19.3%
Median income$93,326
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
58
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 42.3470, -71.1380 · click any tract to drill in
Why Corey Hill 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
19.3% poverty · this tract
4.8
Supply constraint
$2,198 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 Corey Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 54
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 60%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 50%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 107Total filings over 5 yrs
- 1.25%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.7%Peak (2015)
- 21Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 40% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 54Total filings 2020-21
- 1.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.60×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.
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.
- 8.7%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.2%Food insecurity
- 9.2%SNAP enrollment
- 7.3%Transit barriers
- 3.3%No health insurance
- 17.0%Frequent mental distress
- 17.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Corey Hill
The severe-burden share is 25%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 17.1% against 31.5% nationally. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
Cost burden runs 39% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Food insecurity runs 9.2% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 107 eviction filings across 5 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2015, when 1.7% 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 1.3% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #6,330 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025000701
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025000701?
Census tract 25025000701 in the Corey Hill 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 25025000701?
Median gross rent is $2,198/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025000701?
19.3% of residents in tract 25025000701 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,349.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025000701?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 54th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 60th, household 3th, minority 50th, housing 93th.
Q5
Is tract 25025000701 considered part of Corey Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025000701 fall within Corey Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025000701?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 107 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025000701 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.25% of renter households, peaking at 1.7% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025000701 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.60× 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.
Q8
What share of households in tract 25025000701 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.7% 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. 5.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025000701 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025000701 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.
Q10
Was tract 25025000701 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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