Within neighborhood
29
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally
Lower East Side Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36061001200 · New York County, NY · pop 4,157 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
36061001200 is a census tract in the Lower East Side area of New York, NY. It scores 9.5/10 for landlords. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.
Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 70% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 59%
Tract context
Occupied units1,944
Renter share40.5%
SVI overall0.78
Poverty rate16.1%
Median income$105,938
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
51
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
59
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
77
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.7159, -73.9821 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lower East Side scores 9.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from New York
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
New York legislature & governorship
7.3
Economic stress
16.1% poverty · this tract
4.0
Supply constraint
$1,164 rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Lower East Side compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 92%Household composition
- 63%Racial/ethnic minority
- 85%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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)
- 564Total filings over 7 yrs
- 7.69%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.1%Peak (2001)
- 78Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Lower East Side. 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.
- 12.5%Housing insecurity
- 6.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.9%Food insecurity
- 12.6%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 7.8%No health insurance
- 13.5%Frequent mental distress
- 27.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Lower East Side
Average gross rent is $1,164, 36% below the New York average. The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. Running hot, state political climate reads 7.3/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 564 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2001, when 11.1% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 7.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 97% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Social vulnerability reads 8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $105,938, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 46% of renters.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 36061001200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36061001200?
Census tract 36061001200 in the Lower East Side neighborhood scores 9.5/10 (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 36061001200?
Median gross rent is $1,164/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 36061001200?
16.1% of residents in tract 36061001200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,157.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 36061001200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 78th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 92th, minority 63th, housing 85th.
Q5
Is tract 36061001200 considered part of Lower East Side?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36061001200 fall within Lower East Side (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 36061001200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 564 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 36061001200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.69% of renter households, peaking at 11.1% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 36061001200 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.5% 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. 6.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 36061001200 compare to New York overall?
Tract 36061001200 scores 9.5/10, right in line with 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 36061001200 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. 100% 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
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9.9
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/ 10 · Very High
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