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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Jeffries Point compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 27
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 22%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 72%Housing & transportation
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
- 18%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.
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)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 67Total filings 2020-21
- 1.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.14×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Jeffries Point. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.8%Housing insecurity
- 6.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.0%Food insecurity
- 10.3%SNAP enrollment
- 7.0%Transit barriers
- 5.1%No health insurance
- 16.2%Frequent mental distress
- 18.6%Any disability
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.
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