Within neighborhood
95
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally
Ditmas Park Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36047078200 · Kings County, NY · pop 4,087 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Census tract 36047078200 covers part of the Ditmas Park area of New York, NY, and scores 9.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,087 residents. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.
Risk score
9.9
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 45%
Stable renters 34%
Owners 21%
Tract context
Occupied units1,663
Renter share79.1%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate15.5%
Median income$59,422
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
84
th percentile
High
Within county
90
th percentile
Very High
Within state
100
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.6379, -73.9414 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ditmas Park scores 9.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
15.5% poverty · this tract
3.9
Supply constraint
$1,718 rent vs county FMR
1.2
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 Ditmas Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 74%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 44%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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.
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)
- 3,054Total filings over 7 yrs
- 41.97%Avg annual filing rate
- 56.8%Peak (2002)
- 459Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Ditmas Park. 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.
- 27.8%Housing insecurity
- 17.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 33.2%Food insecurity
- 30.9%SNAP enrollment
- 15.8%Transit barriers
- 8.3%No health insurance
- 17.6%Frequent mental distress
- 31.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Ditmas Park
The severe-burden share is 33%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.2/10. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $59,422, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10.
Food insecurity runs 33.2% against 17.8% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 27.8% against 14.2% nationally. Cost burden runs 57% here against 49.3% across Kings County.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 3,054 filings here across 7 tracked years. Against the Kings County average of 9.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2002, when 56.8% of renter households were served.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 36047078200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36047078200?
Census tract 36047078200 in the Ditmas Park neighborhood scores 9.9/10 (High 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 36047078200?
Median gross rent is $1,718/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 36047078200?
15.5% of residents in tract 36047078200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,087.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 36047078200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 88th, minority 99th, housing 88th.
Q5
Is tract 36047078200 considered part of Ditmas Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36047078200 fall within Ditmas Park (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 36047078200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 3,054 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 36047078200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 41.97% of renter households, peaking at 56.8% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 36047078200 struggle to pay rent?
About 27.8% 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. 17.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 36047078200 compare to New York overall?
Tract 36047078200 scores 9.9/10, higher than the parent city of New York at 9.6/10. 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 36047078200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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.
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9.9
/ 10 · Very High
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9.9
/ 10 · Very High
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/ 10 · Very High
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9.9
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