Within neighborhood
69
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #7,382 of 84,120 nationally
Dorchester Heights Eviction Risk: High , Boston
Tract 25025981201 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 0 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Tract 25025981201 covers ground in Boston, MA with no residents recorded in the ACS 5-year release. That usually means water, parkland, an airport, or industrial land rather than housing stock.
Risk score
8.1
High
Confidence 45% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0%
Stable renters 0%
Owners 100%
Tract context
SVI overall-10.00
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
54
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
54
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
88
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3290, -71.0346 · click any tract to drill in
Why Dorchester Heights scores 8.1
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 Dorchester Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: -1,000
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- -1,000%Socioeconomic
- -1,000%Household composition
- -1,000%Racial/ethnic minority
- -1,000%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%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 Dorchester Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Dorchester Heights
It still carries a score of 8.1/10, but that figure is built entirely from the jurisdiction-level inputs it inherits from Boston eviction risk: statute speed, court posture and rent-regulation exposure. There are no households here to measure.
There is no rental market to underwrite inside this boundary. For a real address, use an adjacent tract.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025981201
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025981201?
Census tract 25025981201 in the Dorchester Heights neighborhood scores 8.1/10 (High 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 25025981201?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the -1000th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic -1000th, household -1000th, minority -1000th, housing -1000th.
Q3
Is tract 25025981201 considered part of Dorchester Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025981201 fall within Dorchester Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q4
How does tract 25025981201 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025981201 scores 8.1/10, 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.
Q5
Was tract 25025981201 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 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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Top eight tracts in Boston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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9.5
/ 10 · Very High
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9.5
/ 10 · Very High
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9.5
/ 10 · Very High
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9.5
/ 10 · Very High
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Bugg Village
9.5
/ 10 · Very High
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Frederick Douglass Square Historic District
9.5
/ 10 · Very High
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Frederick Douglass Square Historic District
9.5
/ 10 · Very High
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9.5
/ 10 · Very High
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