Within neighborhood
67
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #6,330 of 84,120 nationally
Gove Street Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025050400 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 2,072 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 25025050400 covers part of the Gove Street area of Boston, MA, and scores 8.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,072 residents. 30% 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
8.3
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35%
Stable renters 41%
Owners 24%
Tract context
Occupied units1,033
Renter share76.4%
SVI overall0.78
Poverty rate15.4%
Median income$76,307
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
56
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 42.3682, -71.0379 · click any tract to drill in
Why Gove Street 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
15.4% poverty · this tract
3.9
Supply constraint
$2,375 rent vs county FMR
3.4
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 Gove Street compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 77%Socioeconomic
- 45%Household composition
- 68%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%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
- 0%Grade C
- 53%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)
- 57Total filings over 5 yrs
- 1.60%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.4%Peak (2013)
- 11Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 57% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 26Total filings 2020-21
- 0.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.55×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 Gove Street. 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.
- 19.1%Housing insecurity
- 11.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.3%Food insecurity
- 23.9%SNAP enrollment
- 12.8%Transit barriers
- 11.4%No health insurance
- 19.1%Frequent mental distress
- 29.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Gove Street
Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $76,307, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. This is renter territory: 76% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. SNAP participation runs 23.9% against 15.2% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 57 evictions over 5 years of observation. Average gross rent is $2,375, 11% above the Boston average. Filings peaked in 2013 at 2.4% of renter households.
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. In a typical year about 1.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 92% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Social vulnerability reads 8.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter.
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 25025050400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025050400?
Census tract 25025050400 in the Gove Street 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 25025050400?
Median gross rent is $2,375/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025050400?
15.4% of residents in tract 25025050400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,072.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025050400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 78th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 77th, household 45th, minority 68th, housing 84th.
Q5
Is tract 25025050400 considered part of Gove Street?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025050400 fall within Gove Street (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025050400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 57 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025050400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.60% of renter households, peaking at 2.4% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025050400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.55× 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 25025050400 struggle to pay rent?
About 19.1% 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. 11.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025050400 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025050400 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 25025050400 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. 53% 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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