Chicopee Falls Eviction Risk: Elevated

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.5/10. Against the Hampden County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. SNAP participation runs 28.1% against 15.2% nationally.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.8/10. 42% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Hampden County average of 46.5%.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Holyoke Chicopee. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,174, close to the Chicopee average. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $64,018.

50% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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