Within neighborhood
25
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #14,308 of 84,120 nationally
Mount Hope Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025110403 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 4,868 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 25025110403 sits in the Mount Hope area of Boston eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.7/10. Population here is 4,868. Cost burden runs 26% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County.
Risk score
6.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units1,795
Renter share30.5%
SVI overall0.34
Poverty rate4.3%
Median income$132,719
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
17
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
14
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.2791, -71.1281 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mount Hope scores 6.7
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
4.3% poverty · this tract
1.1
Supply constraint
$2,493 rent vs county FMR
3.8
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 Mount Hope compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 34
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 19%Socioeconomic
- 42%Household composition
- 62%Racial/ethnic minority
- 47%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)
- 69Total filings over 5 yrs
- 1.99%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.2%Peak (2012)
- 19Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 17% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 24Total filings 2020-21
- 0.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.38×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.
- 12.1%Housing insecurity
- 7.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.9%Food insecurity
- 12.7%SNAP enrollment
- 7.5%Transit barriers
- 5.0%No health insurance
- 14.9%Frequent mental distress
- 23.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mount Hope
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. It sits 1.2 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. At $2,493 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Boston commands.
10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Court records carry 69 eviction filings across 5 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 3.2% of renter households. 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 2.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025110403
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025110403?
Census tract 25025110403 in the Mount Hope neighborhood scores 6.7/10 (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 25025110403?
Median gross rent is $2,493/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025110403?
4.3% of residents in tract 25025110403 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,868.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025110403?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 34th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 19th, household 42th, minority 62th, housing 47th.
Q5
Is tract 25025110403 considered part of Mount Hope?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025110403 fall within Mount Hope (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025110403?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 69 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025110403 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.99% of renter households, peaking at 3.2% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025110403 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.38× 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 25025110403 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.1% 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. 7.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025110403 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025110403 scores 6.7/10, 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 25025110403 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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