Pittsfield Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 25003900900 · Berkshire County, MA · pop 5,226
Census tract 25003900900 runs through Pittsfield. With 5,226 residents, it scores 6.6/10 for landlords. That is riskier than about 89% of US census tracts.
About 57% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 39% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,236 a month while the average household earns $70,625 a year, roughly 21% of income at the averages. About 45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Pittsfield and the region
Centroid at 42.4382, -73.2591 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pittsfield scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Pittsfield compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 34
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 20%Household composition
- 30%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%Housing & transportation
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)
- 373Total filings over 10 yrs
- 3.88%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.4%Peak (2013)
- 32Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.8%Housing insecurity
- 8.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.7%Food insecurity
- 17.6%SNAP enrollment
- 8.5%Transit barriers
- 5.2%No health insurance
- 18.1%Frequent mental distress
- 30.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Pittsfield
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 7.9/10. 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 Pittsfield eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Berkshire County average of 5.8 and above the Massachusetts statewide average of 5.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 11.8% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 8.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 34th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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Highest-risk tracts in Pittsfield
Top eight tracts in Pittsfield ranked by composite eviction-risk score.