Williamstown Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Berkshire County at 46.7%, 78% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.4/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.6/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.4/10. Food insecurity runs 8.8% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 10 evictions over 8 years of observation.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.6% against 11.3% nationally. At $1,580 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Williamstown commands.

Filings peaked in 2007 at 1.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 0.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 74% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 20% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $114,167, annual rent is just 17%.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.