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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Pill Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 32
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 8%Socioeconomic
- 72%Household composition
- 84%Racial/ethnic minority
- 34%Housing & transportation
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
- 38%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.
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)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 0Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.1Pre-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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Pill Hill. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
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