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Neighborhood · Ranked #13,812 of 84,120 nationally

Jeffries Point Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

Tract 25025051200 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 3,164 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Tract 25025051200 sits in the Jeffries Point area of Boston eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.8/10. Population here is 3,164. Against Suffolk County at 47.0%, 31% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
6.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24% Stable renters 55% Owners 21%
Tract context
Occupied units1,693
Renter share79.0%
SVI overall0.27
Poverty rate10.3%
Median income$117,194

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Jeffries Point
Very Low
Within parent city
28 th percentile
Rank, 28th percentileLowHigh
#148 of 206 tracts In Boston
Low
Within county
28 th percentile
Rank, 28th percentileLowHigh
#168 of 234 tracts In Suffolk County
Low
Within state
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#588 of 1,613 tracts In Massachusetts
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Boston and the region

Centroid at 42.3644, -71.0365 · click any tract to drill in

Why Jeffries Point scores 6.8

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
10.3% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$2,795 rent vs county FMR
4.9
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 Jeffries Point compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Jeffries Point risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.8This tracttract 0512008.1Bostonparent city7.9Countyavg tract in county6.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 27

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

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.

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)

  • 86Total filings over 5 yrs
  • 2.36%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.7%Peak (2013)
  • 18Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2012 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 25025051200
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 5 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 67Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.14×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2023-11-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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 Jeffries Point. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Jeffries Point

This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. At $2,795 a month, rents run 30% over what the rest of Boston commands.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.6% against 31.5% nationally. 14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 1.1 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9.

Court records carry 86 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Food insecurity runs 10.0% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2013, when 2.7% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 2.4% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 84th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.5/10.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 25025051200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025051200?

Census tract 25025051200 in the Jeffries Point neighborhood scores 6.8/10 (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 25025051200?

Median gross rent is $2,795/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 25025051200?

10.3% of residents in tract 25025051200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,164.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 25025051200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 27th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 22th, household 4th, minority 59th, housing 72th.
Q5

Is tract 25025051200 considered part of Jeffries Point?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025051200 fall within Jeffries Point (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025051200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 86 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025051200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.36% of renter households, peaking at 2.7% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 25025051200 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.14× 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 25025051200 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.8% 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. 6.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 25025051200 compare to Boston overall?

Tract 25025051200 scores 6.8/10, 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 25025051200 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. 18% 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.

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