Within neighborhood
70
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #8,653 of 84,120 nationally
Forest Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston
Tract 25025981000 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 30 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
With a score of 7.9/10, tract 25025981000 in the Forest Hills area of Boston, MA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 30 residents. This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Risk score
7.9
Elevated
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0%
Stable renters 100%
Owners 0%
Tract context
Occupied units16
Renter share100.0%
SVI overall0.00
Poverty rate0.0%
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
47
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
51
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
80
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.2989, -71.1267 · click any tract to drill in
Why Forest Hills scores 7.9
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
0.0% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Forest Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 0
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 0%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 0%Racial/ethnic minority
- 0%Housing & transportation
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.
- 1%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 13%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 0Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.00×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 Forest Hills. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Forest Hills
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
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. That is riskier than roughly 90% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1/10.
Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Suffolk County average of 7.9 closely.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025981000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025981000?
Census tract 25025981000 in the Forest Hills neighborhood scores 7.9/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 25025981000?
0.0% of residents in tract 25025981000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 30.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025981000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 0th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 0th, household 0th, minority 0th, housing 0th.
Q4
Is tract 25025981000 considered part of Forest Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025981000 fall within Forest Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q5
How does tract 25025981000 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025981000 scores 7.9/10, right in line with 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.
Q6
Was tract 25025981000 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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