East Village Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Amherst Town

The clearest offset is court filing pressure at 0.6/10. Cost burden runs 58% here against 46.3% across Hampshire County.

The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Hampshire County average of 5.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points.

Set annual rent against average income of $48,628 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.3/10.

At $1,349 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Amherst Town commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.6/10.

Court records carry 122 eviction filings across 12 observed years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 1.1% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 0.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #10,320 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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