Sunset Park Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36047002200 · Kings County, NY · pop 4,224 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 36047002200 covers part of the Sunset Park area of New York, NY, and scores 9.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.6435, -74.0217 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sunset Park scores 9.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sunset Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 95
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%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
- 0%Grade B
- 21%Grade C
- 58%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)
- 408Total filings over 7 yrs
- 5.29%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.8%Peak (2001)
- 42Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Sunset Park. 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.
- 25.0%Housing insecurity
- 14.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.3%Food insecurity
- 27.9%SNAP enrollment
- 14.9%Transit barriers
- 18.5%No health insurance
- 15.1%Frequent mental distress
- 33.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Sunset Park
Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. roughly two in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Kings County average of 49.3%.
Set annual rent against average income of $41,429 and the ratio lands at 43%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Food insecurity runs 34.3% against 17.8% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10.
This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
At $1,490 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of New York commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 408 filings here across 7 tracked years.
Adults with no health insurance runs 18.5% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Kings County average of 9.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. Filings peaked in 2001 at 7.8% of renter households.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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