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Amherst Center Eviction Risk: Elevated , Amherst Town

Tract 25015820400 · Hampshire County, MA · pop 11,895 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

25015820400 is a census tract in the Amherst Center area of Amherst Town, MA. It scores 6.4/10 for landlords. It is home to 11,895 residents. What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 10/10.

Risk score

6.4

Elevated

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 29% Stable renters 71% Owners 0%

Tract context

Occupied units34

Renter share100.0%

SVI overall0.05

Poverty rate13.9%

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Amherst Town and the region

Centroid at 42.3889, -72.5261 · click any tract to drill in

Why Amherst Center scores 6.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Amherst Town

7.6

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.3

State political climate

Massachusetts legislature & governorship

6.2

Economic stress

13.9% poverty · this tract

3.5

Supply constraint

$2,667 rent vs county FMR

10.0

Rent control risk

Inherited from Amherst Town

5.6

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

5.5

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Amherst Town

5.3

Housing court bias

Inherited from Amherst Town

6.0

How Amherst Center compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 5

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

16%Socioeconomic
0%Household composition
56%Racial/ethnic minority
34%Housing & transportation

Eviction filings

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)

1Total filings over 1 yrs
0.78%Avg annual filing rate
0.8%Peak (2005)
1Filings in 2005 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2005 to 2016

Filings dropped 100% over the past 12 months.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

9.4%Housing insecurity
5.1%Utility-shutoff threat
11.4%Food insecurity
8.5%SNAP enrollment
10.7%Transit barriers
4.1%No health insurance
24.9%Frequent mental distress
22.8%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Amherst Center

Against Hampshire County at 46.3%, 29% of renters here are cost-burdened. At $2,667 a month, rents run 60% over what the rest of Amherst Town commands.

The voucher gap is 78.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 0.6/10.

On the high side, local political climate reads 7.6/10. The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Court records carry 1 eviction filings across 1 observed years.

It sits 0.8 points above the Hampshire County average of 5.6. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.1% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2005, when 0.8% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 0.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 81% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 25015820400

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25015820400?

Census tract 25015820400 in the Amherst Center neighborhood scores 6.4/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 25015820400?

Median gross rent is $2,667/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 29% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 25015820400?

13.9% of residents in tract 25015820400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 11,895.

How socially vulnerable is tract 25015820400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 5th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 16th, household 0th, minority 56th, housing 34th.

Is tract 25015820400 considered part of Amherst Center?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25015820400 fall within Amherst Center (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25015820400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 25015820400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.78% of renter households, peaking at 0.8% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

What share of households in tract 25015820400 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.4% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 5.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 25015820400 compare to Amherst Town overall?

Tract 25015820400 scores 6.4/10, higher than the parent city of Amherst Town at 6.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Amherst Town eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Amherst Town

Top eight tracts in Amherst Town ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org