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Frederick Douglass Square Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

Tract 25025010600 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 3,174 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

With a score of 6.9/10, tract 25025010600 in the Frederick Douglass Square Historic District area of Boston, MA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. 25% 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

6.9

Elevated

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 39% Stable renters 37% Owners 24%

Tract context

Occupied units2,066

Renter share76.7%

SVI overall0.30

Poverty rate11.0%

Median income$117,422

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Boston and the region

Centroid at 42.3476, -71.0794 · click any tract to drill in

Why Frederick Douglass Square Historic District scores 6.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local 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

11.0% poverty · this tract

2.7

Supply constraint

$2,683 rent vs county FMR

4.5

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 Frederick Douglass Square Historic District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 30

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

26%Socioeconomic
8%Household composition
52%Racial/ethnic minority
65%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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
3%Grade C
25%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)

131Total filings over 5 yrs
1.51%Avg annual filing rate
1.9%Peak (2013)
22Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2012 to 2016

Filings dropped 19% over the past 5 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

60Total filings 2020-21
1.3Avg monthly (observed)
2.2Pre-pandemic baseline
0.57×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2023-11-01

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 Frederick Douglass Square Historic District. 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.

7.1%Housing insecurity
4.6%Utility-shutoff threat
7.0%Food insecurity
7.4%SNAP enrollment
5.2%Transit barriers
2.9%No health insurance
13.4%Frequent mental distress
19.7%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Frederick Douglass Square Historic District

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

At $2,683 a month, rents run 25% over what the rest of Boston commands. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Food insecurity runs 7.0% against 17.8% nationally.

It sits 1.0 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. The filing record is not thin: 131 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Adults with no health insurance runs 2.9% against 11.3% nationally. 51% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Suffolk County average of 47.0%.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 1.9% of renter households were served.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 25025010600

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025010600?

Census tract 25025010600 in the Frederick Douglass Square Historic District neighborhood scores 6.9/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 25025010600?

Median gross rent is $2,683/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 25025010600?

11.0% of residents in tract 25025010600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,174.

How socially vulnerable is tract 25025010600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 30th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 26th, household 8th, minority 52th, housing 65th.

Is tract 25025010600 considered part of Frederick Douglass Square Historic District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025010600 fall within Frederick Douglass Square Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025010600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 131 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025010600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.51% of renter households, peaking at 1.9% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 25025010600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.57× 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.

What share of households in tract 25025010600 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.1% 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. 4.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 25025010600 compare to Boston overall?

Tract 25025010600 scores 6.9/10, lower 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 25025010600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 25% 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.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Boston

Top eight tracts in Boston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org