Belmont Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36005039700 · Bronx County, NY · pop 3,771 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 36005039700 (the Belmont area of New York, New York) comes in at 8.2/10, the High tier. That ranks it in the top 1% of US census tracts for landlord eviction risk, among the very hardest places in the country to operate.
About 52% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 35% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $934 a month while the average household earns $21,987 a year, roughly 51% of income at the averages. Renters make up 98% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.8618, -73.8854 · click any tract to drill in
Why Belmont scores 9.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Belmont compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 65%Racial/ethnic minority
- 94%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 3%Grade B
- 1%Grade C
- 17%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 780Total filings over 8 yrs
- 19.02%Avg annual filing rate
- 24.5%Peak (2003)
- 65Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Belmont. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 21.9%Housing insecurity
- 11.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.8%Food insecurity
- 24.5%SNAP enrollment
- 17.6%Transit barriers
- 8.9%No health insurance
- 25.3%Frequent mental distress
- 34.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Belmont
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 9.8/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from New York eviction laws, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Bronx County average of 7.8 and above the New York statewide average of 6.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 81st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 21.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 11.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord underwriting a deal here, treat timelines and legal costs as the real risk: New York eviction laws sits in territory where contested cases drag and tenant defenses are well organized, so airtight notices and screening matter more than usual.
About tract 36005039700
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