[2] It is bordered to the south by the Amherst Center CDP and to the southwest by the town of Hadley.

The CDP boundary then proceeds west along Tilson Farm Road and Eastman Lane to North Pleasant Street, which it follows north to a brook near the Hadley town line.

[3] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.5 km2), of which 1.0 acre (3,930 m2), or 0.07%, are water.

[1] There are several large apartment complexes in North Amherst, housing mostly students of the University of Massachusetts Amherst along with low-income families (a plurality of whom are graduate students).

Apart from these housing developments, North Amherst also sports many beautiful old houses, and North Amherst Center Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places.

North Amherst is home to a large majority of Amherst middle income families, as the main street (North Pleasant Street) has many housing developments built off it.

22.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.