Sugar Hill Eviction Risk: High , New York

Average gross rent is $1,168, 36% below the New York average. 77% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Set annual rent against average income of $42,692 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The severe-burden share is 21%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Cost burden runs 53% here against 43.9% across New York County.

Housing insecurity runs 28.3% against 14.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

Running hot, state political climate reads 7.3/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Against the New York County average of 9.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 4,982 filings here across 7 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2002, when 38.4% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.