Within neighborhood
54
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #3,797 of 84,120 nationally
Kew Gardens Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36081022002 · Queens County, NY · pop 7,156 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 36081022002 covers part of the Kew Gardens area of New York, NY, and scores 9.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 7,156 residents. 33% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Queens County average of 49.8%.
Risk score
9.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 32%
Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units2,745
Renter share47.1%
SVI overall0.59
Poverty rate11.8%
Median income$105,068
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
40
th percentile
Low
Within county
35
th percentile
Low
Within state
68
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.7132, -73.8145 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kew Gardens scores 9.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
11.8% poverty · this tract
3.0
Supply constraint
$1,974 rent vs county FMR
2.1
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.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 59
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 61%Socioeconomic
- 21%Household composition
- 68%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 90%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 746Total filings over 7 yrs
- 8.86%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.1%Peak (2001)
- 118Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 18% over the past 7 months.
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.
- 13.4%Housing insecurity
- 6.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.6%Food insecurity
- 10.1%SNAP enrollment
- 7.4%Transit barriers
- 7.6%No health insurance
- 12.4%Frequent mental distress
- 23.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Kew Gardens
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.
The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The filing record is not thin: 746 evictions over 7 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2001 at 10.1% of renter households.
Average gross rent is $1,974, 8% above the New York average. 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 8.9% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 95th 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 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 36081022002
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36081022002?
Census tract 36081022002 in the Kew Gardens neighborhood scores 9.1/10 (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 36081022002?
Median gross rent is $1,974/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 36081022002?
11.8% of residents in tract 36081022002 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,156.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 36081022002?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 59th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 61th, household 21th, minority 68th, housing 68th.
Q5
Is tract 36081022002 considered part of Kew Gardens?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36081022002 fall within Kew Gardens (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 36081022002?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 746 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 36081022002 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.86% of renter households, peaking at 10.1% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 36081022002 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.4% 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. 6.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 36081022002 compare to New York overall?
Tract 36081022002 scores 9.1/10, 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.
Q9
Was tract 36081022002 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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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