Pittsfield Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 25003900300 · Berkshire County, MA · pop 2,591
With a score of 5.5/10, tract 25003900300 in Pittsfield, MA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,591 residents. Cost burden runs 27% here against 46.7% across Berkshire County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Pittsfield and the region
Centroid at 42.4680, -73.2420 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pittsfield scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Pittsfield compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 18
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 31%Socioeconomic
- 19%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 16%Housing & transportation
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)
- 166Total filings over 10 yrs
- 6.21%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.9%Peak (2015)
- 8Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.4%Housing insecurity
- 6.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.9%Food insecurity
- 12.7%SNAP enrollment
- 7.0%Transit barriers
- 4.8%No health insurance
- 17.3%Frequent mental distress
- 27.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Pittsfield
Average gross rent is $1,660, 46% above the Pittsfield average. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.2/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.9/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.6/10. Court records carry 166 eviction filings across 10 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2015 at 12.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 6.2% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Berkshire County average of 5.8 closely.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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