Within neighborhood
33
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #26,446 of 84,120 nationally
Orient Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Boston
Tract 25025981502 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 7 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 25025981502 covers part of Boston, Massachusetts, but it has little or no resident population in the latest Census count. Tracts like this usually fall over parks, water, industrial land, or institutional grounds, so there is no household-level rent or eviction profile to report. Its eviction-risk score of 6.2/10 reflects the surrounding county and state framework rather than local renters.
Risk score
4.9
Moderate
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
46
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
37
th percentile
Low
Within state
77
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Boston and the region
Centroid at 42.3959, -71.0070 · click any tract to drill in
Why Orient Heights scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
this tract poverty rate
3.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Boston
8.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Boston
9.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Boston
7.1
How Orient 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: 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
- 21%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)
- 4Total filings over 4 yrs
- 0.00%Avg annual filing rate
- 0.0%Peak (2013)
- 1Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 1Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.12×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 Orient Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Frequently asked
About tract 25025981502
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025981502?
Census tract 25025981502 in the Orient Heights neighborhood scores 4.9/10 (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 25025981502?
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 25025981502 considered part of Orient Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025981502 fall within Orient Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q4
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025981502?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 4 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 25025981502 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.00% of renter households, peaking at 0.0% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q5
Did eviction filings in tract 25025981502 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.12× 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.
Q6
How does tract 25025981502 compare to Boston overall?
Tract 25025981502 scores 4.9/10, 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.
Q7
Was tract 25025981502 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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