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Tract 36001014203 Eviction Risk: Lower

Tract 36001014203 · Albany County, NY · pop 6,209

Albany is where census tract 36001014203 sits, home to 6,209 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 5.4/10. That is riskier than about 53% of US census tracts.

About 33% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 6% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,627 a month while the average household earns $147,373 a year, roughly 13% of income at the averages. About 15% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Risk score

Lower

Confidence 65% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 5% Stable renters 10% Owners 85%

Tract context

Occupied units2,617

Renter share14.5%

SVI overall0.05

Poverty rate0.5%

Median income$147,373

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Albany County and the region

Centroid at 42.6069, -73.8461 · click any tract to drill in

Why Tract 36001014203 scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

State baseline

7.3

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

6.6

State political climate

New York legislature & governorship

7.3

Economic stress

0.5% poverty · this tract

1.0

Supply constraint

$1,627 rent vs county FMR

5.9

Rent control risk

State baseline

7.3

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

5.0

Tenant organizing strength

State baseline

4.0

Housing court bias

State baseline

5.0

How Tract 36001014203 compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 5

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

0%Socioeconomic
54%Household composition
15%Racial/ethnic minority
15%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

11%Grade A
3%Grade B
0%Grade C
0%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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

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.

4.7%Housing insecurity
2.9%Utility-shutoff threat
4.4%Food insecurity
3.2%SNAP enrollment
3.2%Transit barriers
2.5%No health insurance
10.9%Frequent mental distress
18.9%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Tract 36001014203

What moves this score most is rent-control risk at 7.3/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are set by New York eviction laws law, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Albany County average of 6.0 and below the New York statewide average of 6.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 5th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.

In CDC survey modeling, about 4.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 2.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 36001014203

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36001014203?

Census tract 36001014203 in Albany County scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 36001014203?

Median gross rent is $1,627/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 36001014203?

0.5% of residents in tract 36001014203 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,209.

How socially vulnerable is tract 36001014203?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 5th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 0th, household 54th, minority 15th, housing 15th.

What share of households in tract 36001014203 struggle to pay rent?

About 4.7% 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. 2.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

Was tract 36001014203 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% 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.