Sunnyside Gardens Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36081018300 · Queens County, NY · pop 5,304 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
36081018300 is a census tract in the Sunnyside Gardens area of New York, NY. It scores 9.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 5,304 residents. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.7453, -73.9197 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sunnyside Gardens scores 9.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sunnyside Gardens compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 16%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 91%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 68%Grade C
- 0%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.
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)
- 1,097Total filings over 7 yrs
- 6.64%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.8%Peak (2004)
- 119Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Sunnyside Gardens. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 14.0%Housing insecurity
- 6.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.0%Food insecurity
- 10.7%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 8.3%No health insurance
- 13.5%Frequent mental distress
- 23.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Sunnyside Gardens
82% 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. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,097 filings here across 7 tracked years.
At $2,060 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of New York commands. The worst year on record was 2004, when 7.8% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 6.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.3/10. 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.
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.
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