St. James Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 2.1/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.5/10.

Food insecurity runs 8.0% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 0.9 points below the Suffolk County average of 6.3.

Adults with no health insurance runs 4.1% against 11.3% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,952, 12% below the St. James average. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 2.3 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. 47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $126,652.

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