Lambert Houses Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36005035900 · Bronx County, NY · pop 2,814 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
36005035900 is a census tract in the Lambert Houses area of New York, NY. It scores 9.9/10 for landlords. 43% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.8402, -73.8834 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lambert Houses scores 9.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Lambert Houses compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 100%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 96%Housing & transportation
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
- 99%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.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 788Total filings over 8 yrs
- 22.09%Avg annual filing rate
- 22.6%Peak (2016)
- 160Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Lambert Houses. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 43.8%Housing insecurity
- 27.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 55.7%Food insecurity
- 53.9%SNAP enrollment
- 25.7%Transit barriers
- 22.6%No health insurance
- 20.3%Frequent mental distress
- 45.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Lambert Houses
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Housing insecurity runs 43.8% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 47%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Set annual rent against average income of $28,955 and the ratio lands at 49%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.8/10.
This is renter territory: 91% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.6/10. At $1,190 a month, rents run 35% under what the rest of New York commands.
Cost burden runs 66% here against 56.0% across Bronx County. Disability prevalence runs 45.0% against 31.5% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 788 evictions over 8 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2016 at 22.6% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Bronx. 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 22.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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