Sycaway Eviction Risk: High , Troy

It sits 3.2 points above the Rensselaer County average of 6.6. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.

Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 7.8/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 7.4/10. 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. Nationally it ranks #2,210 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 6.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter.

Average gross rent is $1,200, close to the Troy average. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $68,700.

50% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.