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Neighborhood · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally

Court Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Boston

Tract 25025180200 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 4,548 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

With a score of 4.8/10, tract 25025180200 in the Court Park area of Winthrop Town, MA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 43%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22% Stable renters 13% Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units1,742
Renter share34.8%
SVI overall0.58
Poverty rate9.8%
Median income$104,427

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Court Park
Very Low
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 5 tracts In Boston
Very High
Within county
2 th percentile
Rank, 2nd percentileLowHigh
#230 of 234 tracts In Suffolk County
Very Low
Within state
26 th percentile
Rank, 26th percentileLowHigh
#1,199 of 1,613 tracts In Massachusetts
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Boston and the region

Centroid at 42.3800, -70.9881 · click any tract to drill in

Why Court Park scores 4.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Boston
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.2
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
9.8% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,820 rent vs county FMR
1.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Boston
5.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Boston
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Boston
5.0

How Court Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Court Park risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.8This tracttract 1802008.1Bostonparent city7.9Countyavg tract in county6.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 58

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)

  • 75Total filings over 5 yrs
  • 2.29%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.7%Peak (2014)
  • 9Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2012 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 25025180200
Filings dropped 18% over the past 5 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 55Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.2Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.96×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 Court Park. 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 Court Park

Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 3.1 points. 64% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Suffolk County average of 47.0%.

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.4/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.

The filing record is not thin: 75 evictions over 5 years of observation. At $1,820 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Winthrop Town commands. Filings peaked in 2014 at 3.7% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 2.3% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 25025180200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025180200?

Census tract 25025180200 in the Court Park neighborhood scores 4.8/10 (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 25025180200?

Median gross rent is $1,820/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 25025180200?

9.8% of residents in tract 25025180200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,548.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 25025180200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 58th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 54th, household 74th, minority 46th, housing 47th.
Q5

Is tract 25025180200 considered part of Court Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025180200 fall within Court Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025180200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 75 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025180200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.29% of renter households, peaking at 3.7% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 25025180200 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.96× 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 25025180200 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. 7.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 25025180200 compare to Boston overall?

Tract 25025180200 scores 4.8/10, 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 25025180200 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.
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