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Neighborhood · Ranked #11,930 of 84,120 nationally

Greenpoint Eviction Risk: Elevated , New York

Tract 36047047700 · Kings County, NY · pop 3,950 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

Landlord eviction risk in census tract 36047047700 (the Greenpoint neighborhood of New York, New York) comes in at 7.1/10, the Elevated tier. On the national scale it ranks #3,853 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

35% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $3,390 monthly, set against $174,977 in average yearly household income, roughly 23% of income at the averages. Renters make up 80% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28% Stable renters 52% Owners 20%
Tract context
Occupied units1,873
Renter share80.0%
SVI overall0.29
Poverty rate11.5%
Median income$174,977

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#19 of 33 tracts In Greenpoint
Moderate
Within parent city
16 th percentile
Rank, 16th percentileLowHigh
#1,965 of 2,324 tracts In New York
Very Low
Within county
13 th percentile
Rank, 13th percentileLowHigh
#701 of 804 tracts In Kings County
Very Low
Within state
47 th percentile
Rank, 47th percentileLowHigh
#2,869 of 5,394 tracts In New York
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across New York and the region

Centroid at 40.7182, -73.9421 · click any tract to drill in

Why Greenpoint scores 6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from New York
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.7
State political climate
New York legislature & governorship
7.3
Economic stress
11.5% poverty · this tract
2.9
Supply constraint
$3,390 rent vs county FMR
7.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from New York
6.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from New York
9.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from New York
7.1

How Greenpoint compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Greenpoint risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 6.06.0This tracttract 047700New York: 9.79.7New Yorkparent cityCounty: 7.47.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.95.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 29

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 124Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 2.28%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.2%Peak (2006)
  • 22Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2006
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 360470477002000: 17 filings (2.37/100 renter HHs)2001: 19 filings (2.65/100 renter HHs)2002: 14 filings (1.95/100 renter HHs)2003: 18 filings (2.51/100 renter HHs)2004: 20 filings (2.79/100 renter HHs)2005: 14 filings (1.42/100 renter HHs)2006: 22 filings (2.24/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 29% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Greenpoint. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Greenpoint

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 about the same as the Kings County average of 7.3 and above the New York statewide average of 6.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 29th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 92% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.

Frequently asked

About tract 36047047700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36047047700?

Census tract 36047047700 in the Greenpoint neighborhood scores 6/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 36047047700?

Median gross rent is $3,390/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 36047047700?

11.5% of residents in tract 36047047700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,950.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 36047047700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 29th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 26th, household 2th, minority 42th, housing 87th.
Q5

Is tract 36047047700 considered part of Greenpoint?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36047047700 fall within Greenpoint (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 36047047700?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 124 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 36047047700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.28% of renter households, peaking at 2.2% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 36047047700 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.2% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 5.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 36047047700 compare to New York overall?

Tract 36047047700 scores 6/10, lower than the parent city of New York at 9.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from New York eviction laws; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 36047047700 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 92% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in New York ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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