Within neighborhood
80
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #5,153 of 84,120 nationally
Forest Hills Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025101101 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 4,045 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Census tract 25025101101 covers part of the Forest Hills area of Boston, MA, and scores 8.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. 36% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
8.6
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29%
Stable renters 24%
Owners 47%
Tract context
Occupied units1,366
Renter share53.1%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate17.5%
Median income$75,357
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
61
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
63
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
92
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.2849, -71.0959 · click any tract to drill in
Why Forest Hills scores 8.6
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
17.5% poverty · this tract
4.4
Supply constraint
$1,918 rent vs county FMR
1.8
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 Forest Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 59%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
- 65%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)
- 211Total filings over 5 yrs
- 5.90%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.4%Peak (2016)
- 56Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 47% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 99Total filings 2020-21
- 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.50×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 Forest Hills. 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.
- 27.0%Housing insecurity
- 18.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.1%Food insecurity
- 36.5%SNAP enrollment
- 17.0%Transit barriers
- 8.0%No health insurance
- 19.4%Frequent mental distress
- 32.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Forest Hills
SNAP participation runs 36.5% against 15.2% nationally. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.8/10. Housing insecurity runs 27.0% against 14.2% nationally. 54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Suffolk County average of 47.0%.
Court records carry 211 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points.
Average gross rent is $1,918, 11% below the Boston average. The worst year on record was 2016, when 7.4% 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 5.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #5,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025101101
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025101101?
Census tract 25025101101 in the Forest Hills neighborhood scores 8.6/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 25025101101?
Median gross rent is $1,918/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025101101?
17.5% of residents in tract 25025101101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,045.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025101101?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 96th, minority 95th, housing 59th.
Q5
Is tract 25025101101 considered part of Forest Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025101101 fall within Forest Hills (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025101101?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 211 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025101101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.90% of renter households, peaking at 7.4% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025101101 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.50× 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 25025101101 struggle to pay rent?
About 27.0% 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. 18.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025101101 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025101101 scores 8.6/10, 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 25025101101 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.
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