Neighborhood · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally

Grove Hall Eviction Risk: High , Boston

Tract 25025082100 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 5,980 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Census tract 25025082100 covers part of the Grove Hall area of Boston, MA, and scores 9.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,980 residents. At $814 a month, rents run 62% under what the rest of Boston commands.

Risk score

9.5

High

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 52% Stable renters 36% Owners 12%

Tract context

Occupied units1,981

Renter share88.3%

SVI overall0.93

Poverty rate23.1%

Median income$29,441

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Boston and the region

Centroid at 42.3094, -71.0872 · click any tract to drill in

Why Grove Hall scores 9.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local 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

23.1% poverty · this tract

5.8

Supply constraint

$814 rent vs county FMR

1.0

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 Grove Hall compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 93

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

79%Socioeconomic
97%Household composition
90%Racial/ethnic minority
81%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
100%Grade C
0%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)

1,011Total filings over 5 yrs
10.57%Avg annual filing rate
13.0%Peak (2016)
249Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2012 to 2016

Filings climbed 30% over the past 5 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

373Total filings 2020-21
7.9Avg monthly (observed)
17.3Pre-pandemic baseline
0.46×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2023-11-01

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 Grove Hall. 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.

35.3%Housing insecurity
25.4%Utility-shutoff threat
43.9%Food insecurity
52.9%SNAP enrollment
23.6%Transit barriers
14.2%No health insurance
21.8%Frequent mental distress
41.3%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Grove Hall

Food insecurity runs 43.9% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 52.9% against 15.2% nationally.

This is renter territory: 88% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. 59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Suffolk County average of 47.0%.

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $29,441, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

It sits 1.6 points above the Suffolk County average of 7.9. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The filing record is not thin: 1,011 evictions over 5 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 13.0% of renter households were served.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 25025082100

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025082100?

Census tract 25025082100 in the Grove Hall neighborhood scores 9.5/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 25025082100?

Median gross rent is $814/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 59% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 25025082100?

23.1% of residents in tract 25025082100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,980.

How socially vulnerable is tract 25025082100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 79th, household 97th, minority 90th, housing 81th.

Is tract 25025082100 considered part of Grove Hall?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025082100 fall within Grove Hall (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025082100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,011 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025082100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.57% of renter households, peaking at 13.0% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 25025082100 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.46× 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.

What share of households in tract 25025082100 struggle to pay rent?

About 35.3% 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. 25.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 25025082100 compare to Boston overall?

Tract 25025082100 scores 9.5/10, 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.

Q10

Was tract 25025082100 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Boston

Top eight tracts in Boston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org