Greenpoint Eviction Risk: Moderate , New York
Tract 36047055500 · Kings County, NY · pop 9,578 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
The Elevated-tier score of 6.8/10 for census tract 36047055500 reflects conditions in the Greenpoint neighborhood of New York, New York. That is riskier than about 91% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 34% of renter households, a high level, and 14% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $3,501 a month while the average household earns $188,015 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 74% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.7181, -73.9633 · click any tract to drill in
Why Greenpoint scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Greenpoint compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 23
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 13%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 61%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%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
- 0%Grade C
- 14%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)
- 66Total filings over 7 yrs
- 2.25%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.6%Peak (2005)
- 5Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Greenpoint. 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.
- 8.2%Housing insecurity
- 4.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.3%Food insecurity
- 4.4%SNAP enrollment
- 4.5%Transit barriers
- 3.9%No health insurance
- 12.8%Frequent mental distress
- 12.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Greenpoint
The heaviest input here 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 below 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.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 14% 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 8.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 4.3% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 36047055500
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