Alphabet City Eviction Risk: High , New York

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $73,899, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. At $2,266 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of New York commands.

Running hot, state political climate reads 7.3/10. It sits 0.9 points above the New York County average of 9.0. Court records carry 736 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2005, when 7.5% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Manhattan. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 7.3% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.4/10. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.