Alphabet City Eviction Risk: High , New York

Food insecurity runs 55.8% against 17.8% nationally. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.

This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, economic stress reads 9.3/10. The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Disability prevalence runs 48.6% against 31.5% nationally. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.

14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 0.9 points above the New York County average of 9.0.

Court records carry 2,791 eviction filings across 7 observed years. The worst year on record was 2006, when 23.3% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Manhattan. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 15.9% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.