Within neighborhood
75
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #10,320 of 84,120 nationally
Mount Hope Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025110401 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 3,712 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 25025110401 covers part of the Mount Hope area of Boston, MA, and scores 7.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,712. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10.
Risk score
7.5
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 54%
Tract context
Occupied units1,393
Renter share45.9%
SVI overall0.68
Poverty rate12.3%
Median income$97,540
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
42
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
45
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
74
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.2864, -71.1226 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mount Hope scores 7.5
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
12.3% poverty · this tract
3.1
Supply constraint
$2,013 rent vs county FMR
2.1
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: 68
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 59%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 76%Racial/ethnic minority
- 45%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
- 100%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)
- 113Total filings over 5 yrs
- 3.54%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.7%Peak (2012)
- 18Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 49% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 42Total filings 2020-21
- 0.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.31×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 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.
- 16.2%Housing insecurity
- 9.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.2%Food insecurity
- 18.8%SNAP enrollment
- 10.1%Transit barriers
- 7.2%No health insurance
- 16.4%Frequent mental distress
- 25.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mount Hope
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 113 filings here across 5 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2012, when 5.7% of renter households were served. 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 3.5% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.1/10.
Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
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 25025110401
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025110401?
Census tract 25025110401 in the Mount Hope neighborhood scores 7.5/10 (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 25025110401?
Median gross rent is $2,013/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025110401?
12.3% of residents in tract 25025110401 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,712.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025110401?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 68th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 59th, household 85th, minority 76th, housing 45th.
Q5
Is tract 25025110401 considered part of Mount Hope?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025110401 fall within Mount Hope (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025110401?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 113 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025110401 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.54% of renter households, peaking at 5.7% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025110401 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.31× 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 25025110401 struggle to pay rent?
About 16.2% 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. 9.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025110401 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025110401 scores 7.5/10, 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 25025110401 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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