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Neighborhood · Ranked #6,330 of 84,120 nationally

Kew Gardens Eviction Risk: High , New York

Tract 36081021601 · Queens County, NY · pop 2,861 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 36081021601 covers part of the Kew Gardens area of New York, NY, and scores 8.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,861. about a quarter of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well under the Queens County average of 49.8%.

Risk score
8.3
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10% Stable renters 30% Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units1,504
Renter share40.2%
SVI overall0.59
Poverty rate3.3%
Median income$103,958

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
15 th percentile
Rank, 15th percentileLowHigh
#12 of 14 tracts In Kew Gardens
Very Low
Within parent city
22 th percentile
Rank, 22nd percentileLowHigh
#1,811 of 2,324 tracts In New York
Low
Within county
13 th percentile
Rank, 13th percentileLowHigh
#632 of 724 tracts In Queens County
Very Low
Within state
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#2,390 of 5,394 tracts In New York
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across New York and the region

Centroid at 40.7131, -73.8265 · click any tract to drill in

Why Kew Gardens scores 8.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from New York
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
New York legislature & governorship
7.3
Economic stress
3.3% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,193 rent vs county FMR
2.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from New York
6.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from New York
9.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from New York
7.1

How Kew Gardens compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Kew Gardens risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.3This tracttract 0216019.6New Yorkparent city9.3Countyavg tract in county7.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 59

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Kew Gardens. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Kew Gardens

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Average gross rent is $2,193, 20% above the New York average. It sits 1.0 points below the Queens County average of 9.3.

SNAP participation runs 6.1% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 10.1% against 17.8% nationally. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Queens. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

On the national scale it lands near the 92nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 36081021601

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36081021601?

Census tract 36081021601 in the Kew Gardens neighborhood scores 8.3/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 36081021601?

Median gross rent is $2,193/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 25% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 36081021601?

3.3% of residents in tract 36081021601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,861.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 36081021601?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 59th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 43th, household 8th, minority 70th, housing 97th.
Q5

Is tract 36081021601 considered part of Kew Gardens?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36081021601 fall within Kew Gardens (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 36081021601 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.9% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 4.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 36081021601 compare to New York overall?

Tract 36081021601 scores 8.3/10, lower than the parent city of New York at 9.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from New York eviction laws; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 36081021601 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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