Mount Hope Eviction Risk: High , Albany

Against Albany County at 42.1%, roughly one in four of renters here are cost-burdened. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.5/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10. At $971 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Albany commands. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

Food insecurity runs 27.0% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Housing insecurity runs 23.0% against 14.2% nationally. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 #2,339 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $70,893, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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