Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #49,882 of 84,120 nationally
Winthrop Highlands Eviction Risk: Lower , Winthrop Town
Tract 25025180101 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 5,489 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
How risky is the Winthrop Highlands area of Winthrop Town for landlords? Census tract 25025180101 scores 5.7/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 43% of renter households, a severe level, and 11% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,838 a month while the average household earns $95,306 a year, roughly 23% of income at the averages. About 57% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 32%
Owners 44%
Tract context
Occupied units2,397
Renter share56.9%
SVI overall0.63
Poverty rate6.4%
Median income$95,306
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
75
th percentile
High
Within county
2
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
54
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Winthrop Town and the region
Centroid at 42.3869, -70.9750 · click any tract to drill in
Why Winthrop Highlands scores 3.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Winthrop Town
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.2
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
6.4% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$1,838 rent vs county FMR
1.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Winthrop Town
5.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Winthrop Town
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Winthrop Town
5.0
How Winthrop Highlands compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 63
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 40%Socioeconomic
- 72%Household composition
- 58%Racial/ethnic minority
- 77%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.
- 0%Grade A
- 24%Grade B
- 24%Grade C
- 1%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)
- 81Total filings over 5 yrs
- 1.32%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.7%Peak (2015)
- 14Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 33Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.49×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.
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.
- 10.2%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.9%Food insecurity
- 12.5%SNAP enrollment
- 6.9%Transit barriers
- 4.9%No health insurance
- 15.2%Frequent mental distress
- 27.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Winthrop Highlands
What moves this score most is eviction process difficulty at 6.1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Winthrop Town, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Suffolk County average of 6.7 and in line with the Massachusetts statewide average of 5.9. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 10.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 6.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
During 2020 and 2021, eviction filings here ran at about 0.49x the pre-COVID monthly baseline, well below the pre-pandemic norm, the signature of an eviction moratorium at work.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025180101
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025180101?
Census tract 25025180101 in the Winthrop Highlands neighborhood scores 3.5/10 (Lower 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 25025180101?
Median gross rent is $1,838/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25025180101?
6.4% of residents in tract 25025180101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,489.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025180101?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 63th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 40th, household 72th, minority 58th, housing 77th.
Q5
Is tract 25025180101 considered part of Winthrop Highlands?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025180101 fall within Winthrop Highlands (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025180101?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 81 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025180101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.32% of renter households, peaking at 1.7% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 25025180101 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.49× 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 25025180101 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.2% 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. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 25025180101 compare to Winthrop Town overall?
Tract 25025180101 scores 3.5/10, lower than the parent city of Winthrop Town at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Winthrop Town; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 25025180101 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. 1% 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 Winthrop Town
Top eight tracts in Winthrop Town ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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