Palmer Town Eviction Risk: Lower

It sits 2.8 points below the Hampden County average of 5.8. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.6/10. 10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 3.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $88,750, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 3.2 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Average gross rent is $1,137, close to the Palmer Town average.

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