Merritt Park Eviction Risk: High , Brinckerhoff

Cost burden runs 57% here against 45.8% across Dutchess County. It sits 1.9 points above the Dutchess County average of 6.2.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The voucher gap is 20.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

Nationally it ranks #7,382 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Average gross rent is $2,295, close to the Fishkill average. Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $94,348.

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