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Neighborhood · Ranked #4,119 of 84,120 nationally

Cambria Heights Eviction Risk: High , New York

Tract 36081038400 · Queens County, NY · pop 2,539 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Tract 36081038400 sits in the Cambria Heights area of New York eviction laws, NY, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9/10. Population here is 2,539. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.

Risk score
9
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9% Stable renters 9% Owners 82%
Tract context
Occupied units842
Renter share18.4%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate9.7%
Median income$101,500

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
81 th percentile
Rank, 81st percentileLowHigh
#4 of 17 tracts In Cambria Heights
High
Within parent city
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#1,501 of 2,324 tracts In New York
Low
Within county
34 th percentile
Rank, 34th percentileLowHigh
#479 of 724 tracts In Queens County
Low
Within state
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#1,871 of 5,394 tracts In New York
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across New York and the region

Centroid at 40.6933, -73.7476 · click any tract to drill in

Why Cambria Heights scores 9

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
9.7% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$2,089 rent vs county FMR
2.5
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 Cambria Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Cambria Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state9.0This tracttract 0384009.6New Yorkparent city9.3Countyavg tract in county7.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 64

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

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.

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)

  • 113Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 7.81%Avg annual filing rate
  • 11.8%Peak (2000)
  • 18Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 36081038400
Filings dropped 33% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Cambria Heights. 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 Cambria Heights

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

Food insecurity runs 26.9% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 113 evictions over 7 years of observation.

Average gross rent is $2,089, 15% above the New York average. SNAP participation runs 22.2% against 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2000, when 11.8% 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 7.8% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #4,119 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 18% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

about half of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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 36081038400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36081038400?

Census tract 36081038400 in the Cambria Heights neighborhood scores 9/10 (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 36081038400?

Median gross rent is $2,089/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 36081038400?

9.7% of residents in tract 36081038400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,539.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 36081038400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 68th, household 37th, minority 99th, housing 46th.
Q5

Is tract 36081038400 considered part of Cambria Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36081038400 fall within Cambria Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 36081038400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 113 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 36081038400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.81% of renter households, peaking at 11.8% in 2000. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 36081038400 struggle to pay rent?

About 24.8% 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. 13.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 36081038400 compare to New York overall?

Tract 36081038400 scores 9/10, 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 36081038400 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.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in New York ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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