Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #14,308 of 84,120 nationally
Savin Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025091100 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 4,367 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 25025091100 covers part of the Savin Hill area of Boston, MA, and scores 6.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. around a third of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Suffolk County average of 47.0%.
Risk score
6.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19%
Stable renters 35%
Owners 46%
Tract context
Occupied units1,985
Renter share53.8%
SVI overall0.50
Poverty rate11.0%
Median income$129,732
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
17
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
28
th percentile
Low
Within state
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3156, -71.0556 · click any tract to drill in
Why Savin Hill 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
11.0% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$2,283 rent vs county FMR
3.0
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 Savin Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 50
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 47%Socioeconomic
- 12%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 77%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
- 99%Grade C
- 1%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)
- 136Total filings over 5 yrs
- 2.64%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.0%Peak (2012)
- 27Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 51Total filings 2020-21
- 1.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.48×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 Savin 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.
- 12.1%Housing insecurity
- 7.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.6%Food insecurity
- 14.1%SNAP enrollment
- 8.6%Transit barriers
- 5.1%No health insurance
- 17.3%Frequent mental distress
- 22.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Savin Hill
What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 136 filings here across 5 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2012, when 3.0% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 2.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 83% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.5/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $2,283, close to the Boston average.
Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $129,732.
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 25025091100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025091100?
Census tract 25025091100 in the Savin Hill 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 25025091100?
Median gross rent is $2,283/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025091100?
11.0% of residents in tract 25025091100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,367.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025091100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 50th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 47th, household 12th, minority 64th, housing 77th.
Q5
Is tract 25025091100 considered part of Savin Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025091100 fall within Savin Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025091100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 136 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025091100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.64% of renter households, peaking at 3.0% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025091100 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.48× 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 25025091100 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.1% 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. 7.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025091100 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025091100 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 25025091100 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. 1% 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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