Morningside Heights Eviction Risk: High , New York

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.

The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 38% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the New York County average of 43.9%. On the high side, state political climate reads 7.3/10.

It sits 0.9 points above the New York County average of 9.0. The filing record is not thin: 632 evictions over 7 years of observation.

At $2,079 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of New York commands. The worst year on record was 2000, when 4.6% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 3.2% of renter households face a filing.

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