Campus Eviction Risk: Elevated , Westmere

Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9/10.

Running cool, economic stress reads 2/10. At $1,220 a month, rents run 25% under what the rest of Westmere commands.

On the high side, state political climate reads 7.3/10. SNAP participation runs 7.1% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 10.1% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Albany County average of 6.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points. 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 #16,571 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $85,647, annual rent is just 17%.

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