The Commons Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicopee

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Cost burden runs 37% here against 46.5% across Hampden County.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.6/10. SNAP participation runs 24.0% against 15.2% nationally. Average gross rent is $984, 15% below the Chicopee average.

9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 0.6 points above the Hampden County average of 5.8.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Holyoke Chicopee. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 81% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 7.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $77,870, annual rent is just 15%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.