Tract 36001000201 ·
Albany County, NY · pop 2,465 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
With a score of 9.9/10, tract 36001000201 in the Sheridan Hollow area of Albany, NY reads high for landlord eviction risk. It sits 3.0 points above the Albany County average of 6.9.
Risk score
9.9
High
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32%Stable renters 45%Owners 23%
Tract context
Occupied units1,189
Renter share77.0%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate32.0%
Median income$37,218
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50th percentile
#1 of 1 tracts In Sheridan Hollow
Moderate
Within parent city
61th percentile
#12 of 29 tracts In Albany
Elevated
Within county
86th percentile
#13 of 85 tracts In Albany County
High
Within state
100th percentile
#1 of 5,394 tracts In New York
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Albany and the region
Centroid at 42.6584, -73.7552 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sheridan Hollow scores 9.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Albany
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.6
State political climate
New York legislature & governorship
7.3
Economic stress
32.0% poverty · this tract
8.0
Supply constraint
$981 rent vs county FMR
1.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Albany
7.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Albany
7.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Albany
7.5
How Sheridan Hollow compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
89%Socioeconomic
75%Household composition
88%Racial/ethnic minority
60%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
0%Grade A
0%Grade B
0%Grade C
97%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
30.7%Housing insecurity
23.3%Utility-shutoff threat
38.7%Food insecurity
43.0%SNAP enrollment
20.3%Transit barriers
11.2%No health insurance
20.7%Frequent mental distress
37.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Sheridan Hollow
SNAP participation runs 43.0% against 15.2% nationally. The severe-burden share is 33%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.6/10. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 23.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8/10. At $981 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Albany commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
That is riskier than roughly 100% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.6/10.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 36001000201
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36001000201?
Census tract 36001000201 in the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood scores 9.9/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 36001000201?
Median gross rent is $981/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 36001000201?
32.0% of residents in tract 36001000201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,465.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 36001000201?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 89th, household 75th, minority 88th, housing 60th.
Q5
Is tract 36001000201 considered part of Sheridan Hollow?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36001000201 fall within Sheridan Hollow (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
What share of households in tract 36001000201 struggle to pay rent?
About 30.7% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 23.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 36001000201 compare to Albany overall?
Tract 36001000201 scores 9.9/10, higher than the parent city of Albany at 8.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Albany eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 36001000201 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 97% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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