Within neighborhood
57
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #19,562 of 84,120 nationally
Pill Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , Boston
Tract 25025081101 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 1,376 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
How risky is the Pill Hill area of Boston for landlords? Census tract 25025081101 scores 6.9/10, the Elevated tier. On the national scale it ranks #5,745 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
58% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 31% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $2,772 a month while the average household earns $82,568 a year, roughly 40% of income at the averages. About 93% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 54%
Stable renters 39%
Owners 7%
Tract context
Occupied units813
Renter share92.6%
SVI overall0.61
Poverty rate11.7%
Median income$82,568
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
47
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
49
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
83
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3270, -71.1125 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pill Hill scores 5.4
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
11.7% poverty · this tract
2.9
Supply constraint
$2,772 rent vs county FMR
4.8
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 Pill Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 61
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 43%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 65%Racial/ethnic minority
- 99%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 57%Grade B
- 11%Grade C
- 23%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 35Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 8.75×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Pill Hill. 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.
- 8.5%Housing insecurity
- 5.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.0%Food insecurity
- 9.2%SNAP enrollment
- 6.4%Transit barriers
- 3.7%No health insurance
- 14.6%Frequent mental distress
- 19.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Pill Hill
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 8.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Boston eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Suffolk County average of 6.7 and above the Massachusetts statewide average of 5.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 8.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
During 2020 and 2021, eviction filings here ran at about 8.75x the pre-COVID monthly baseline, above pre-pandemic levels.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025081101
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025081101?
Census tract 25025081101 in the Pill Hill neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate 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 25025081101?
Median gross rent is $2,772/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025081101?
11.7% of residents in tract 25025081101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,376.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025081101?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 61th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 43th, household 7th, minority 65th, housing 99th.
Q5
Is tract 25025081101 considered part of Pill Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025081101 fall within Pill Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 25025081101 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 8.75× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 25025081101 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.5% 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. 5.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 25025081101 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025081101 scores 5.4/10, lower than the parent city of Boston at 7.1/10. 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.
Q9
Was tract 25025081101 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 23% 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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