Hamilton Heights Eviction Risk: High , New York

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. This is renter territory: 89% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $59,145, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Food insecurity runs 32.0% against 17.8% nationally. On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10.

Against New York County at 43.9%, 52% of renters here are cost-burdened. Housing insecurity runs 25.7% against 14.2% nationally.

Running hot, economic stress reads 7.5/10. It sits 0.9 points above the New York County average of 9.0. Court records carry 4,615 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2000, when 26.6% 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 25.2% of renter households face a filing.

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.