Neighborhood · Ranked #14,308 of 84,120 nationally

Mount Hope Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

Tract 25025110502 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 4,019 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Tract 25025110502 sits in the Mount Hope area of Boston eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.7/10. It is home to 4,019 residents. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.

Risk score

6.7

Elevated

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 32% Owners 50%

Tract context

Occupied units1,787

Renter share49.3%

SVI overall0.44

Poverty rate7.2%

Median income$126,250

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Boston and the region

Centroid at 42.2829, -71.1326 · click any tract to drill in

Why Mount Hope scores 6.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local 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

7.2% poverty · this tract

1.8

Supply constraint

$1,969 rent vs county FMR

1.9

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: 44

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

37%Socioeconomic
36%Household composition
59%Racial/ethnic minority
53%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)

104Total filings over 5 yrs
2.61%Avg annual filing rate
3.2%Peak (2012)
16Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2012 to 2016

Filings dropped 36% over the past 5 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

27Total filings 2020-21
0.6Avg monthly (observed)
1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
0.33×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2023-11-01

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.

11.4%Housing insecurity
7.0%Utility-shutoff threat
11.2%Food insecurity
12.1%SNAP enrollment
7.2%Transit barriers
4.9%No health insurance
15.0%Frequent mental distress
22.1%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Mount Hope

Cost burden runs 36% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.8/10.

Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. The filing record is not thin: 104 evictions over 5 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2012, when 3.2% of renter households were served.

Average gross rent is $1,969, 8% below the Boston average. 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 2.6% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.9/10, 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 25025110502

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025110502?

Census tract 25025110502 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.

What is the average rent in tract 25025110502?

Median gross rent is $1,969/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 25025110502?

7.2% of residents in tract 25025110502 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,019.

How socially vulnerable is tract 25025110502?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 44th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 37th, household 36th, minority 59th, housing 53th.

Is tract 25025110502 considered part of Mount Hope?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025110502 fall within Mount Hope (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025110502?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 104 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025110502 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.61% of renter households, peaking at 3.2% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 25025110502 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.33× 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.

What share of households in tract 25025110502 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.4% 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. 7.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 25025110502 compare to Boston overall?

Tract 25025110502 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 25025110502 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.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Boston

Top eight tracts in Boston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org