Within neighborhood
60
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally
Morningside Heights Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36061020300 · New York County, NY · pop 3,933 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Tract 36061020300 sits in the Morningside Heights area of New York eviction laws, NY, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.9/10. Population here is 3,933. Cost burden runs 63% here against 43.9% across New York County.
Risk score
9.9
High
Confidence 70% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 60%
Stable renters 35%
Owners 5%
Tract context
Occupied units448
Renter share94.9%
SVI overall0.72
Poverty rate23.6%
Median income$65,806
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
75
th percentile
High
Within county
83
th percentile
High
Within state
100
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.8087, -73.9616 · click any tract to drill in
Why Morningside Heights scores 9.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from New York
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
New York legislature & governorship
7.3
Economic stress
23.6% poverty · this tract
5.9
Supply constraint
$2,528 rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from New York
6.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from New York
9.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from New York
7.1
How Morningside Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 72
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 71%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 71%Racial/ethnic minority
- 97%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 100%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 89Total filings over 7 yrs
- 2.64%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.5%Peak (2002)
- 7Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 36% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Morningside Heights. 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.
- 13.5%Housing insecurity
- 6.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.7%Food insecurity
- 11.7%SNAP enrollment
- 11.3%Transit barriers
- 6.4%No health insurance
- 21.2%Frequent mental distress
- 22.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Morningside Heights
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. The severe-burden share is 31%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Set annual rent against average income of $65,806 and the ratio lands at 46%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. This is renter territory: 95% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
At $2,528 a month, rents run 39% over what the rest of New York commands. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.
The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, state political climate reads 7.3/10. It sits 0.9 points above the New York County average of 9.0.
Court records carry 89 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Filings peaked in 2002 at 3.5% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. In a typical year about 2.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 36061020300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36061020300?
Census tract 36061020300 in the Morningside Heights 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 36061020300?
Median gross rent is $2,528/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 36061020300?
23.6% of residents in tract 36061020300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,933.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 36061020300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 72th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 71th, household 6th, minority 71th, housing 97th.
Q5
Is tract 36061020300 considered part of Morningside Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36061020300 fall within Morningside Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 36061020300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 89 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 36061020300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.64% of renter households, peaking at 3.5% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 36061020300 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.5% 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. 6.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 36061020300 compare to New York overall?
Tract 36061020300 scores 9.9/10, higher than the parent city of New York at 9.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from New York eviction laws; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 36061020300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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.
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