Neighborhood · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally

Cedar Grove Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

Tract 25025100800 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 5,961 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 25025100800 covers part of the Cedar Grove area of Boston, MA, and scores 7.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 39%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

7.8

Elevated

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 30% Stable renters 24% Owners 46%

Tract context

Occupied units2,751

Renter share53.6%

SVI overall0.54

Poverty rate10.5%

Median income$77,224

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Boston and the region

Centroid at 42.2775, -71.0637 · click any tract to drill in

Why Cedar Grove scores 7.8

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

10.5% poverty · this tract

2.6

Supply constraint

$1,948 rent vs county FMR

1.9

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 Cedar Grove compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 54

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

42%Socioeconomic
81%Household composition
63%Racial/ethnic minority
38%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.

1%Grade A
10%Grade B
55%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)

277Total filings over 5 yrs
3.94%Avg annual filing rate
4.7%Peak (2012)
53Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2012 to 2016

Filings dropped 21% over the past 5 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

135Total filings 2020-21
2.9Avg monthly (observed)
4.7Pre-pandemic baseline
0.61×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.

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.

12.3%Housing insecurity
7.9%Utility-shutoff threat
13.2%Food insecurity
14.8%SNAP enrollment
8.3%Transit barriers
4.7%No health insurance
16.1%Frequent mental distress
24.7%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Cedar Grove

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Suffolk County average of 47.0%. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Court records carry 277 eviction filings across 5 observed years.

At $1,948 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Boston commands. The worst year on record was 2012, when 4.7% 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 3.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 89th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.9/10. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Suffolk County average of 7.9 closely.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 25025100800

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025100800?

Census tract 25025100800 in the Cedar Grove neighborhood scores 7.8/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 25025100800?

Median gross rent is $1,948/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 25025100800?

10.5% of residents in tract 25025100800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,961.

How socially vulnerable is tract 25025100800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 54th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 42th, household 81th, minority 63th, housing 38th.

Is tract 25025100800 considered part of Cedar Grove?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025100800 fall within Cedar Grove (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025100800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 277 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025100800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.94% of renter households, peaking at 4.7% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 25025100800 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.61× 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 25025100800 struggle to pay rent?

About 12.3% 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. 7.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 25025100800 compare to Boston overall?

Tract 25025100800 scores 7.8/10, 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 25025100800 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