Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #14,308 of 84,120 nationally
Putterham Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025110601 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 3,009 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 6.7/10, tract 25025110601 in the Putterham area of Boston, MA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,009. 54% 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
6.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 70%
Tract context
Occupied units1,362
Renter share29.9%
SVI overall0.40
Poverty rate4.0%
Median income$140,000
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
26
th percentile
Low
Within county
15
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.2983, -71.1400 · click any tract to drill in
Why Putterham 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
4.0% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,760 rent vs county FMR
4.7
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 Putterham compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 40
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 13%Socioeconomic
- 57%Household composition
- 28%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%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.
- 28%Grade A
- 44%Grade B
- 8%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)
- 2Total filings over 2 yrs
- 0.42%Avg annual filing rate
- 0.4%Peak (2014)
- 1Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 5Total filings 2020-21
- 0.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.50×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
- 5.8%Housing insecurity
- 3.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.0%Food insecurity
- 6.3%SNAP enrollment
- 4.3%Transit barriers
- 2.7%No health insurance
- 11.9%Frequent mental distress
- 23.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Putterham
Cost burden runs 66% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.
Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Average gross rent is $2,760, 29% above the Boston average.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Food insecurity runs 6.0% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 1.2 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9.
Adults with no health insurance runs 2.7% against 11.3% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 2 evictions over 2 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 0.4% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 0.4% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #14,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 4.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025110601
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025110601?
Census tract 25025110601 in the Putterham 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 25025110601?
Median gross rent is $2,760/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 66% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025110601?
4.0% of residents in tract 25025110601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,009.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025110601?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 40th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 13th, household 57th, minority 28th, housing 79th.
Q5
Is tract 25025110601 considered part of Putterham?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025110601 fall within Putterham (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025110601?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 2 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 25025110601 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.42% of renter households, peaking at 0.4% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025110601 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 2.50× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 25025110601 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.8% 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. 3.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025110601 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025110601 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 25025110601 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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