Within neighborhood
75
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally
Audubon Circle Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025010204 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 3,354 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Tract 25025010204 sits in the Audubon Circle area of Boston eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.5/10. It is home to 3,354 residents. 40% 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
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 51%
Stable renters 40%
Owners 9%
Tract context
Occupied units999
Renter share91.1%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate34.7%
Median income$41,480
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
93
th percentile
Very High
Within county
79
th percentile
High
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3465, -71.1034 · click any tract to drill in
Why Audubon Circle scores 9.5
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
34.7% poverty · this tract
8.7
Supply constraint
$2,267 rent vs county FMR
3.0
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 Audubon Circle compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 64
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 58%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%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
- 98%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)
- 29Total filings over 5 yrs
- 0.70%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.1%Peak (2014)
- 4Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 20% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 26Total filings 2020-21
- 0.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.11×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Audubon Circle. 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.
- 16.1%Housing insecurity
- 10.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.5%Food insecurity
- 22.0%SNAP enrollment
- 14.0%Transit barriers
- 5.4%No health insurance
- 23.2%Frequent mental distress
- 24.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Audubon Circle
Set annual rent against average income of $41,480 and the ratio lands at 66%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. This is renter territory: 91% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
The dominant input is economic stress at 8.7/10. The poverty rate is 35%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Cost burden runs 56% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County.
Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. Court records carry 29 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 1.1% of renter households.
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 0.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #2,657 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025010204
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025010204?
Census tract 25025010204 in the Audubon Circle neighborhood scores 9.5/10 (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 25025010204?
Median gross rent is $2,267/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025010204?
34.7% of residents in tract 25025010204 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,354.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025010204?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 2th, minority 58th, housing 98th.
Q5
Is tract 25025010204 considered part of Audubon Circle?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025010204 fall within Audubon Circle (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025010204?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 29 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025010204 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.70% of renter households, peaking at 1.1% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025010204 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.11× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 25025010204 struggle to pay rent?
About 16.1% 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. 10.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025010204 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025010204 scores 9.5/10, 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.
Q10
Was tract 25025010204 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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