New Scotland Eviction Risk: High , Albany

It sits 3.0 points above the Albany County average of 6.9. 53% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Albany County average of 42.1%.

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8/10. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 7.5/10.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Albany. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 5.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $85,776, annual rent is just 18%. 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. Average gross rent is $1,277, close to the Albany average. 52% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.