Within neighborhood
88
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #2,922 of 84,120 nationally
Downtown Crossing Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025070102 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 2,721 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
25025070102 is a census tract in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, MA. It scores 9.4/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,721. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 8.9/10.
Risk score
9.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 25%
Stable renters 44%
Owners 31%
Tract context
Occupied units1,136
Renter share69.1%
SVI overall0.80
Poverty rate35.7%
Median income$90,962
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
74
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
77
th percentile
High
Within state
96
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3557, -71.0618 · click any tract to drill in
Why Downtown Crossing scores 9.4
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
35.7% poverty · this tract
8.9
Supply constraint
$2,374 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 Downtown Crossing compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 80
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 69%Socioeconomic
- 64%Household composition
- 65%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%Housing & transportation
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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 25Total filings 2020-21
- 0.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.74×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Downtown Crossing. 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.
- 13.0%Housing insecurity
- 8.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.6%Food insecurity
- 19.7%SNAP enrollment
- 11.4%Transit barriers
- 5.8%No health insurance
- 18.8%Frequent mental distress
- 29.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Downtown Crossing
The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Cost burden runs 36% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County.
Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
It sits 1.5 points above the Suffolk County average of 7.9. Severe burden reaches 8%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Average gross rent is $2,374, 11% above the Boston average.
That is riskier than roughly 97% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.2/10.
Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 3.2 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
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 25025070102
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025070102?
Census tract 25025070102 in the Downtown Crossing neighborhood scores 9.4/10 (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 25025070102?
Median gross rent is $2,374/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025070102?
35.7% of residents in tract 25025070102 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,721.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025070102?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 80th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 69th, household 64th, minority 65th, housing 88th.
Q5
Is tract 25025070102 considered part of Downtown Crossing?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025070102 fall within Downtown Crossing (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 25025070102 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.74× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 25025070102 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.0% 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. 8.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 25025070102 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025070102 scores 9.4/10, higher 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.
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