Census Tract · Ranked #15,451 of 84,120 nationally

Northampton Eviction Risk: Elevated

Tract 25015821601 · Hampshire County, MA · pop 3,541

With a score of 6.5/10, tract 25015821601 in Northampton, MA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,541. The clearest offset is court filing pressure at 0.6/10.

Risk score

6.5

Elevated

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 24% Stable renters 19% Owners 57%

Tract context

Occupied units1,805

Renter share43.4%

SVI overall0.74

Poverty rate9.2%

Median income$80,799

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Northampton and the region

Centroid at 42.3534, -72.6497 · click any tract to drill in

Why Northampton scores 6.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Northampton

7.6

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.3

State political climate

Massachusetts legislature & governorship

6.2

Economic stress

9.2% poverty · this tract

2.3

Supply constraint

$1,540 rent vs county FMR

5.3

Rent control risk

Inherited from Northampton

7.2

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

6.1

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Northampton

8.4

Housing court bias

Inherited from Northampton

6.6

How Northampton compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 74

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

52%Socioeconomic
80%Household composition
28%Racial/ethnic minority
93%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)

219Total filings over 12 yrs
2.84%Avg annual filing rate
4.9%Peak (2008)
5Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2005 to 2016

Filings dropped 81% over the past 12 months.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

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.

9.0%Housing insecurity
6.2%Utility-shutoff threat
10.4%Food insecurity
12.6%SNAP enrollment
6.9%Transit barriers
4.6%No health insurance
15.0%Frequent mental distress
28.2%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Northampton

Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10.

55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Hampshire County average of 46.3%. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.3/10. It sits 0.9 points above the Hampshire County average of 5.6.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 219 filings here across 12 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 10.4% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2008, when 4.9% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 2.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 82% 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. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,540, close to the Northampton average.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 25015821601

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25015821601?

Census tract 25015821601 in Northampton scores 6.5/10 (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 25015821601?

Median gross rent is $1,540/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 25015821601?

9.2% of residents in tract 25015821601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,541.

How socially vulnerable is tract 25015821601?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 74th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 52th, household 80th, minority 28th, housing 93th.

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25015821601?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 219 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 25015821601 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.84% of renter households, peaking at 4.9% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

What share of households in tract 25015821601 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.0% 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. 6.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 25015821601 compare to Northampton overall?

Tract 25015821601 scores 6.5/10, right in line with the parent city of Northampton at 6.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Northampton eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Northampton

Top eight tracts in Northampton 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