Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #4,888 of 84,120 nationally
Mount Hope Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025110201 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 2,432 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 25025110201 sits in the Mount Hope area of Boston eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.7/10. It is home to 2,432 residents. At $1,232 a month, rents run 43% under what the rest of Boston commands.
Risk score
8.7
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28%
Stable renters 29%
Owners 43%
Tract context
Occupied units915
Renter share56.8%
SVI overall0.88
Poverty rate17.5%
Median income$70,139
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
63
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
65
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
93
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.2805, -71.1171 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mount Hope scores 8.7
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
17.5% poverty · this tract
4.4
Supply constraint
$1,232 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 Mount Hope compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%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
- 97%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)
- 124Total filings over 5 yrs
- 4.22%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.6%Peak (2014)
- 16Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 33% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 96Total filings 2020-21
- 2.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.13×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 Mount Hope. 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.
- 22.1%Housing insecurity
- 14.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.7%Food insecurity
- 27.7%SNAP enrollment
- 13.7%Transit barriers
- 9.5%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 30.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mount Hope
The severe-burden share is 31%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10.
Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
SNAP participation runs 27.7% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 124 evictions over 5 years of observation. Housing insecurity runs 22.1% against 14.2% nationally.
Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points. Filings peaked in 2014 at 5.6% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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.
In a typical year about 4.2% of renter households face a filing.
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 25025110201
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025110201?
Census tract 25025110201 in the Mount Hope neighborhood scores 8.7/10 (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 25025110201?
Median gross rent is $1,232/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025110201?
17.5% of residents in tract 25025110201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,432.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025110201?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 88th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 94th, minority 86th, housing 79th.
Q5
Is tract 25025110201 considered part of Mount Hope?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025110201 fall within Mount Hope (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025110201?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 124 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025110201 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.22% of renter households, peaking at 5.6% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025110201 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.13× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 25025110201 struggle to pay rent?
About 22.1% 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. 14.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025110201 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025110201 scores 8.7/10, 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 25025110201 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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