Willimansett Eviction Risk: High , Chicopee

Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Hampden County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. SNAP participation runs 31.3% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Disability prevalence runs 45.1% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2/10.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 43% of renters.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.