Morningside Heights Eviction Risk: High , New York

28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. 77% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. Running hot, 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: 2,326 evictions over 7 years of observation. At $2,059 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of New York commands.

Filings peaked in 2001 at 30.3% of renter households. 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 24.8% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.