North Amherst is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Amherst in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,819 at the 2010 census, up from 6,019 at the 2000 census. It is allowance of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.

North Amherst is located in the northern part of the town of Amherst at 42°24′22″N 72°31′16″W / 42.40611°N 72.52111°W / 42.40611; -72.52111 (42.406192, -72.521217). It is bordered to the south by the Amherst Center CDP and to the southwest by the town of Hadley. The CDP connect follows the Mill River north from the Hadley town line, then east across Massachusetts Route 116 as far and wide as Massachusetts Route 63. The link up then follows Pulpit Hill Road, Mill Street, Sand Hill Road, and Pine Street east to the New England Central Railroad line, which it follows south to Tilson Farm Road. The CDP boundary then proceeds west along Tilson Farm Road and Eastman Lane to North Pleasant Street, which it follows north to a brook close the Hadley town line.

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

There are several large apartment complexes in North Amherst, housing mostly students of the University of Massachusetts Amherst along considering low-income families (a plurality of whom are graduate students). Apart from these housing developments, North Amherst afterward sports many beautiful old-fashioned houses, and North Amherst Center Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places. The village is said to be an excellently-preserved example of a 19th-century farm community.