Within neighborhood
43
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #12,481 of 84,120 nationally
Pill Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025120500 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 2,688 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 25025120500 covers part of the Pill Hill area of Boston, MA, and scores 7.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,688. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 43%
Tract context
Occupied units1,014
Renter share57.1%
SVI overall0.58
Poverty rate16.8%
Median income$157,813
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
33
th percentile
Low
Within county
35
th percentile
Low
Within state
67
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3207, -71.1042 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pill Hill scores 7.1
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
16.8% poverty · this tract
4.2
Supply constraint
$2,928 rent vs county FMR
5.3
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 Pill Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 70%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 27%Grade C
- 73%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)
- 65Total filings over 5 yrs
- 2.42%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.5%Peak (2013)
- 11Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 21% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 16Total filings 2020-21
- 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.27×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 Pill Hill. 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.
- 14.4%Housing insecurity
- 8.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.7%Food insecurity
- 15.9%SNAP enrollment
- 9.7%Transit barriers
- 7.5%No health insurance
- 16.6%Frequent mental distress
- 23.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Pill Hill
Average gross rent is $2,928, 36% above the Boston average. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Against Suffolk County at 47.0%, 54% of renters here are cost-burdened. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 65 filings here across 5 tracked years.
It sits 0.8 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. Filings peaked in 2013 at 3.5% of renter households.
This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 2.4% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.2/10.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025120500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025120500?
Census tract 25025120500 in the Pill Hill neighborhood scores 7.1/10 (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 25025120500?
Median gross rent is $2,928/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025120500?
16.8% of residents in tract 25025120500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,688.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025120500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 58th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 46th, household 70th, minority 64th, housing 52th.
Q5
Is tract 25025120500 considered part of Pill Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025120500 fall within Pill Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025120500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 65 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025120500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.42% of renter households, peaking at 3.5% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025120500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.27× 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 25025120500 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.4% 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. 8.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025120500 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025120500 scores 7.1/10, 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 25025120500 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 73% 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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