Highlands Eviction Risk: High , Westfield

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. Against the Hampden County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points.

Against Hampden County at 46.5%, 59% of renters here are cost-burdened. SNAP participation runs 32.0% against 15.2% nationally.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,246, 22% above the Holyoke average. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.4/10. Housing insecurity runs 21.2% against 14.2% nationally. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.