Capitol Hill Eviction Risk: High , Albany

The dominant input is economic stress at 8.9/10. Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

This is renter territory: 83% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.3/10. Housing insecurity runs 23.6% against 14.2% nationally. Cost burden runs 37% here against 42.1% across Albany County.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. At $1,089 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Albany commands.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Albany. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.7/10.

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