Within neighborhood
6
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #14,308 of 84,120 nationally
Frederick Douglass Square Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025070600 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 2,228 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
With a score of 6.7/10, tract 25025070600 in the Frederick Douglass Square Historic District area of Boston, MA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,228 residents. Against Suffolk County at 47.0%, 21% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
6.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 24%
Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units1,161
Renter share31.0%
SVI overall0.09
Poverty rate3.2%
Median income$241,008
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
8
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
18
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3433, -71.0754 · click any tract to drill in
Why Frederick Douglass Square Historic District scores 6.7
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
3.2% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$3,321 rent vs county FMR
6.7
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 Frederick Douglass Square Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 3%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%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
- 100%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)
- 16Total filings over 5 yrs
- 0.74%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.1%Peak (2013)
- 4Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 33% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 8Total filings 2020-21
- 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.51×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 Frederick Douglass Square Historic District. 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.
- 5.9%Housing insecurity
- 3.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.0%Food insecurity
- 5.1%SNAP enrollment
- 4.2%Transit barriers
- 2.3%No health insurance
- 13.2%Frequent mental distress
- 15.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Frederick Douglass Square Historic District
At $3,321 a month, rents run 55% over what the rest of Boston commands. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.
On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Food insecurity runs 5.0% against 17.8% nationally.
Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The voucher gap is 17.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Adults with no health insurance runs 2.3% against 11.3% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 16 evictions over 5 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2013 at 1.1% of renter households. 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 0.7% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025070600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025070600?
Census tract 25025070600 in the Frederick Douglass Square Historic District neighborhood scores 6.7/10 (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 25025070600?
Median gross rent is $3,321/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 21% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025070600?
3.2% of residents in tract 25025070600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,228.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025070600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 9th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 3th, household 2th, minority 37th, housing 76th.
Q5
Is tract 25025070600 considered part of Frederick Douglass Square Historic District?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025070600 fall within Frederick Douglass Square Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025070600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 16 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025070600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.74% of renter households, peaking at 1.1% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025070600 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.51× 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 25025070600 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.9% 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. 3.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025070600 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025070600 scores 6.7/10, 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 25025070600 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. 100% 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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