Briar-Cliff Park at Merrick Eviction Risk: Elevated , North Merrick

20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Average gross rent is $2,065, 19% below the North Bellmore average. On the high side, state political climate reads 7.3/10.

SNAP participation runs 5.3% against 15.2% nationally. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 44.5% across Nassau County.

Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2.7/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 10% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $191,354, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.7 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.