Hempstead Eviction Risk: High

Cost burden runs 69% here against 44.5% across Nassau County. Against the Nassau County average of 6.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 3.4 points. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10.

Food insecurity runs 39.7% against 17.8% nationally. This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Set annual rent against average income of $55,313 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

On the high side, economic stress reads 8.4/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter.

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.