Greene County, New York Eviction Risk: High

Greene County carries an average eviction-risk score of 7.9/10, placing it in the High risk tier across its 21 tracked localities. For landlords operating in New York eviction laws, that figure means the statistical environment, combining rent burden, poverty, local court pace, and regulatory pressure, tilts meaningfully against smooth tenancy outcomes. According to the rank data, 38 of the state's 60 counties score higher (riskier), and 21 score lower, putting Greene County squarely in the middle third of New York state but well above the threshold most investors associate with routine operations.

The intra-county spread tells a more pointed story than the average alone. Scores across Greene County's localities run from 7 to 8.9, a 1.6-point band that separates genuinely manageable conditions from some of the most pressured submarkets in the Hudson Valley region. With an average rent of $1,164 per month and an average rent burden of 30% of tenant income, the county sits at the edge where financial stress routinely converts into late payments and contested proceedings. Landlords here need tight screening protocols and realistic cash-flow models that account for extended vacancy during disputes.

The cities inside Greene County

The highest-risk addresses in the county cluster at the 7.8/10 mark. Catskill, the county seat and its largest locality at 3,779 residents, shares that top score with Coxsackie (population 2,737). Both cities combine meaningful renter populations with the economic pressures that drive default rates upward. Glasco, Cairo, Jefferson Heights, Tannersville, South Cairo, and Prattsville all score 7.9/10, meaning landlords in those communities face conditions only fractionally better than the county's ceiling.

The lowest-risk point in the county is Cementon, which scores 7/10, a full 1.6 points below the county maximum. That gap illustrates how hyper-local risk is in Greene County: a landlord holding units in Palenville operates in a meaningfully different environment than one two towns over in Catskill. Investors assembling a Greene County portfolio should score each acquisition address individually rather than relying on the county average.

State-level laws that apply here

Every Greene County tenancy is governed by New York state law, principally N.Y. RPL § 226 et seq. and RPAPL § 711. Notice requirements scale with tenancy length: a nonpayment case requires a 14-day notice under RPAPL § 711(2), a material lease violation requires 10 days under RPAPL § 711(1), and holdover notices run 30 days for tenancies under one year, 60 days for one-to-two-year tenancies, and 90 days for tenancies of two years or more, all under RPL § 226-c. Just cause for eviction is required under state law, and rent caps vary by locality rather than following a single statewide formula. Understanding the full New York eviction process is essential before serving any notice, because procedural missteps reset the clock entirely.

On costs, the New York eviction costs landlords must budget range from a court filing fee of $45 to $210, a sheriff lockout fee of $50 to $200, and attorney fees of $1,000 to $4,000 depending on case complexity. Uncontested proceedings typically resolve in 30 to 90 days; contested cases extend to 90 to 210 days. New York security deposit limits and New York tenant protections, including the retaliation statute at RPL § 223-b and the implied warranty of habitability at RPL § 235-b, add further compliance obligations every landlord in the county must track.

With an average poverty rate of 12.5% and roughly 32.7% of residents renting rather than owning, the financial fragility underlying Greene County's risk score is real and distributed unevenly across its localities; the city-by-city grid above is the most reliable starting point for calibrating underwriting assumptions to a specific address.