Sunnyside Gardens Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36081023501 · Queens County, NY · pop 4,467 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 36081023501 covers part of the Sunnyside Gardens area of New York, NY, and scores 9.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,467. The dominant input is 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 40.7377, -73.9181 · 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: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 52%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 75%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
- 100%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.
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.
- 21.1%Housing insecurity
- 9.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.8%Food insecurity
- 16.8%SNAP enrollment
- 11.4%Transit barriers
- 16.2%No health insurance
- 13.7%Frequent mental distress
- 28.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Sunnyside Gardens
92% 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 cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. The severe-burden share is 21%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Average gross rent is $1,501, 18% below the New York average. Food insecurity runs 26.8% against 17.8% nationally.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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