Blackinton Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , North Adams
Tract 25003921500 · Berkshire County, MA · pop 2,698 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 25003921500 (the Blackinton Historic District neighborhood of North Adams, Massachusetts) comes in at 6.6/10, the Elevated tier. It lands near the 89th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 59% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 33% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $650 a month against an average household income of $56,910 a year, roughly 14% of income at the averages. Renters make up 35% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across North Adams and the region
Centroid at 42.6905, -73.1494 · click any tract to drill in
Why Blackinton Historic District scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Blackinton Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 35
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 54%Socioeconomic
- 51%Household composition
- 15%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%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)
- 336Total filings over 10 yrs
- 7.08%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.0%Peak (2014)
- 35Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 12.1%Housing insecurity
- 8.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.1%Food insecurity
- 20.3%SNAP enrollment
- 8.9%Transit barriers
- 5.3%No health insurance
- 19.1%Frequent mental distress
- 33.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Blackinton Historic District
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 8.9/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from North Adams, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Berkshire County average of 5.8 and above the Massachusetts statewide average of 5.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 336 eviction filings here over 10 tracked years, with about 7.1% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 9.0% of renter households in 2014.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 35th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 25003921500
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Highest-risk tracts in North Adams
Top eight tracts in North Adams ranked by composite eviction-risk score.