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Neighborhood · Ranked #8,653 of 84,120 nationally

Pill Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

Tract 25025981800 · Suffolk County, MA · pop 46 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Tract 25025981800 sits in the Pill Hill area of Boston eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.9/10. It is home to 46 residents. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.

Risk score
7.9
Elevated
Confidence 60% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 0% Owners 100%
Tract context
Occupied units17
SVI overall0.32
Poverty rate0.0%

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 8 tracts In Pill Hill
Elevated
Within parent city
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#108 of 206 tracts In Boston
Moderate
Within county
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#118 of 234 tracts In Suffolk County
Moderate
Within state
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#320 of 1,613 tracts In Massachusetts
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Boston and the region

Centroid at 42.3231, -71.1170 · click any tract to drill in

Why Pill Hill scores 7.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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 Pill Hill compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Pill Hill risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.9This tracttract 9818008.1Bostonparent city7.9Countyavg tract in county6.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 32

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)

  • 3Total filings over 3 yrs
  • 0.00%Avg annual filing rate
  • 0.0%Peak (2013)
  • 1Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2012 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 25025981800

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 0Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.00×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2023-11-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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 Pill Hill. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Pill Hill

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

Court records carry 3 eviction filings across 3 observed years. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Boston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 90th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 3.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Model confidence here is 60%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point. 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 25025981800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25025981800?

Census tract 25025981800 in the Pill Hill 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 25025981800?

0.0% of residents in tract 25025981800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 46.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 25025981800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 32th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 8th, household 72th, minority 84th, housing 34th.
Q4

Is tract 25025981800 considered part of Pill Hill?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25025981800 fall within Pill Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25025981800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 3 eviction filings across 3 validated years in tract 25025981800 (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.
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 25025981800 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.00× 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.
Q7

How does tract 25025981800 compare to Boston overall?

Tract 25025981800 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.
Q8

Was tract 25025981800 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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