Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #10,727 of 84,120 nationally
Gove Street Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025050500 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 2,134 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
25025050500 is a census tract in the Gove Street area of Boston, MA. It scores 7.4/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,134. 33% 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
7.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 36%
Stable renters 34%
Owners 30%
Tract context
Occupied units974
Renter share70.0%
SVI overall0.54
Poverty rate14.3%
Median income$109,758
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
40
th percentile
Low
Within county
41
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
72
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3709, -71.0319 · click any tract to drill in
Why Gove Street scores 7.4
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
14.3% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$2,283 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 Gove Street 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.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 76%Racial/ethnic minority
- 70%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
- 42%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)
- 51Total filings over 5 yrs
- 1.99%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.8%Peak (2013)
- 7Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 30% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 28Total filings 2020-21
- 0.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.0Pre-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.
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.
- 16.0%Housing insecurity
- 9.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.0%Food insecurity
- 17.6%SNAP enrollment
- 10.5%Transit barriers
- 8.4%No health insurance
- 17.9%Frequent mental distress
- 23.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Gove Street
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Cost burden runs 52% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 51 filings here across 5 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2013, when 2.8% of renter households were served. 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 2.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 5.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Suffolk County average of 7.9 closely.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025050500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025050500?
Census tract 25025050500 in the Gove Street neighborhood scores 7.4/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 25025050500?
Median gross rent is $2,283/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025050500?
14.3% of residents in tract 25025050500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,134.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025050500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 54th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 73th, household 3th, minority 76th, housing 70th.
Q5
Is tract 25025050500 considered part of Gove Street?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025050500 fall within Gove Street (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025050500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 51 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025050500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.99% of renter households, peaking at 2.8% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025050500 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 25025050500 struggle to pay rent?
About 16.0% 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. 9.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025050500 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025050500 scores 7.4/10, 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 25025050500 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. 42% 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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