Within neighborhood
60
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #20,889 of 84,120 nationally
Forest Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Boston
Tract 25025981100 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 91 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Here is how census tract 25025981100, in Forest Hills in Boston eviction risk, looks to a landlord: a 6.3/10 eviction-risk score (Elevated tier) across a population of 91. That is riskier than about 83% of US census tracts.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 45% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0%
Stable renters 0%
Owners 100%
Tract context
SVI overall0.19
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
46
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
47
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
81
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.2880, -71.1034 · click any tract to drill in
Why Forest Hills scores 5.3
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
this tract poverty rate
3.0
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: 19
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 7%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 80%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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 1%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 42Total filings over 5 yrs
- 7.48%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.3%Peak (2013)
- 10Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 25% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 19Total filings 2020-21
- 0.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 19.00×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. 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.
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.
- 29.5%Housing insecurity
- 18.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 32.3%Food insecurity
- 34.8%SNAP enrollment
- 17.5%Transit barriers
- 17.2%No health insurance
- 18.8%Frequent mental distress
- 33.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Forest Hills
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 8.5/10. 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 Boston eviction risk, 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 above the Massachusetts statewide average of 5.9. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 29.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 18.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025981100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025981100?
Census tract 25025981100 in the Forest Hills neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (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
How socially vulnerable is tract 25025981100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 19th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 7th, household 2th, minority 72th, housing 80th.
Q3
Is tract 25025981100 considered part of Forest Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025981100 fall within Forest Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q4
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025981100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 42 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 25025981100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.48% of renter households, peaking at 8.3% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q5
Did eviction filings in tract 25025981100 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 19.00× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston eviction risk, MA), 2020-2021.
Q6
What share of households in tract 25025981100 struggle to pay rent?
About 29.5% 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. 18.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 25025981100 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025981100 scores 5.3/10, lower than the parent city of Boston at 7.1/10. 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.
Q8
Was tract 25025981100 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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