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Neighborhood · Ranked #19,618 of 84,120 nationally

Mill Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chelsea

Tract 25025170601 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 6,347 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Tract 25025170601 sits in the Mill Hill area of Revere eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.9/10. Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.9
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 12% Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units1,801
Renter share31.1%
SVI overall0.60
Poverty rate2.0%
Median income$101,932

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Mill Hill
Very Low
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#14 of 14 tracts In Chelsea
Very Low
Within county
3 th percentile
Rank, 3rd percentileLowHigh
#228 of 234 tracts In Suffolk County
Very Low
Within state
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#837 of 1,613 tracts In Massachusetts
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chelsea and the region

Centroid at 42.4073, -71.0077 · click any tract to drill in

Why Mill Hill scores 5.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Chelsea
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.2
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
2.0% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,864 rent vs county FMR
1.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Chelsea
8.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Chelsea
9.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Chelsea
7.1

How Mill Hill compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Mill Hill risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.9This tracttract 1706017.8Chelseaparent city7.9Countyavg tract in county6.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 60

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

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.

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)

  • 80Total filings over 5 yrs
  • 1.73%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.4%Peak (2012)
  • 12Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2012 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 25025170601
Filings dropped 48% over the past 5 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 51Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.85×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2023-11-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Mill 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Mill Hill

Cost burden runs 61% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10.

Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.0 points. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.6/10.

The filing record is not thin: 80 evictions over 5 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,864, 10% below the Revere average.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 2.4% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Revere. 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 1.7% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 77th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.4/10.

Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 25025170601

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025170601?

Census tract 25025170601 in the Mill Hill neighborhood scores 5.9/10 (Moderate 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 25025170601?

Median gross rent is $1,864/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 25025170601?

2.0% of residents in tract 25025170601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,347.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 25025170601?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 60th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 38th, household 66th, minority 71th, housing 69th.
Q5

Is tract 25025170601 considered part of Mill Hill?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025170601 fall within Mill Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025170601?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 80 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025170601 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.73% of renter households, peaking at 2.4% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 25025170601 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.85× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 25025170601 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.2% 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. 10.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 25025170601 compare to Chelsea overall?

Tract 25025170601 scores 5.9/10, lower than the parent city of Chelsea at 7.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Chelsea eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10

Was tract 25025170601 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. 11% 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 Chelsea

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

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