South Amherst Eviction Risk: Moderate , Amherst Town

Against Hampshire County at 46.3%, 59% of renters here are cost-burdened. The voucher gap is 28.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.7/10.

Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, supply constraint reads 7.8/10. Food insecurity runs 7.0% against 17.8% nationally.

Court records carry 265 eviction filings across 12 observed years. At $1,917 a month, rents run 15% over what the rest of Amherst Town commands.

Housing insecurity runs 6.6% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2008 at 4.1% of renter households.

In a typical year about 2.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 72% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.8/10. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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.