Within neighborhood
40
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #13,812 of 84,120 nationally
Forest Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025110106 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 1,707 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 25025110106 sits in the Forest Hills area of Boston eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.8/10. It is home to 1,707 residents. 61% 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
6.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units786
Renter share47.3%
SVI overall0.59
Poverty rate6.6%
Median income$108,974
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
27
th percentile
Low
Within county
29
th percentile
Low
Within state
64
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.2925, -71.1165 · click any tract to drill in
Why Forest Hills scores 6.8
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
6.6% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$2,682 rent vs county FMR
4.5
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: 59
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 36%Socioeconomic
- 60%Household composition
- 45%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%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
- 43%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 22Total filings 2020-21
- 0.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.14×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. 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.
- 11.9%Housing insecurity
- 7.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.9%Food insecurity
- 12.6%SNAP enrollment
- 7.3%Transit barriers
- 5.2%No health insurance
- 15.4%Frequent mental distress
- 21.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Forest Hills
Against Suffolk County at 47.0%, 62% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.6/10. At $2,682 a month, rents run 25% over what the rest of Boston commands.
It sits 1.1 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Boston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 84% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $108,974.
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 25025110106
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025110106?
Census tract 25025110106 in the Forest Hills neighborhood scores 6.8/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 25025110106?
Median gross rent is $2,682/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025110106?
6.6% of residents in tract 25025110106 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,707.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025110106?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 59th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 36th, household 60th, minority 45th, housing 83th.
Q5
Is tract 25025110106 considered part of Forest Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025110106 fall within Forest Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 25025110106 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.14× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 25025110106 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.9% 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. 7.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 25025110106 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025110106 scores 6.8/10, 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.
Q9
Was tract 25025110106 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. 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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