Barry's Corner Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025000806 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 2,390 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 25025000806 covers part of the Barry's Corner area of Boston, MA, and scores 8.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,390. Cost burden runs 65% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3637, -71.1265 · click any tract to drill in
Why Barry's Corner scores 8.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Barry's Corner compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 38
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 61%Racial/ethnic minority
- 94%Housing & transportation
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
- 1%Grade C
- 16%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.
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)
- 0.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.08×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.1%Housing insecurity
- 7.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.1%Food insecurity
- 13.2%SNAP enrollment
- 9.3%Transit barriers
- 4.6%No health insurance
- 18.9%Frequent mental distress
- 18.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Barry's Corner
At $3,501 a month, rents run 63% over what the rest of Boston commands. Annualized rent equals 47% of average household income of $89,479, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
The severe-burden share is 31%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 93% 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.
The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
The voucher gap is 23.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Disability prevalence runs 18.5% against 31.5% nationally.
The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 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 93rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.4/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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