Church Green Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025070103 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 782 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 7.4/10, tract 25025070103 in the Church Green area of Boston, MA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. 65% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Suffolk County average of 47.0%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3479, -71.0598 · click any tract to drill in
Why Church Green scores 7.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Church Green compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 65%Socioeconomic
- 48%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%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
- 27%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 11Total filings 2020-21
- 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.76×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Church Green. 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.
- 10.2%Housing insecurity
- 5.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.6%Food insecurity
- 10.5%SNAP enrollment
- 7.0%Transit barriers
- 4.1%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 16.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Church Green
Average gross rent is $3,054, 42% above the Boston average. This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $95,000, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
Disability prevalence runs 16.3% against 31.5% nationally. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.8/10.
14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.1% against 11.3% nationally. 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.
On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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