New Paltz Eviction Risk: High

It sits 3.2 points above the Ulster County average of 6.7. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 9.2/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.8/10. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Average gross rent is $1,457, 13% below the New Paltz average. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 6.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $71,313.

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