Belchertown Eviction Risk: Moderate

21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Average gross rent is $1,243, 28% above the Belchertown average. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.9/10.

Running cool, economic stress reads 2.1/10. It sits 1.1 points below the Hampshire County average of 5.6. Food insecurity runs 9.4% against 17.8% nationally.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.9% against 11.3% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.5/10.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.7 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 45% of renters. Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $82,404.

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