Merritt Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Brinckerhoff

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, state political climate reads 7.3/10. It sits 1.0 points below the Dutchess County average of 6.2.

Food insecurity runs 8.7% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 6.6% against 15.2% nationally. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 7/10.

That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 2.5 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Average gross rent is $1,865, close to the Brinckerhoff average.

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