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Saint Albans Eviction Risk: High , New York

Tract 36081040000 · Queens County, NY · pop 1,691 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

36081040000 is a census tract in the Saint Albans area of New York, NY. It scores 8.4/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 45%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8% Stable renters 10% Owners 82%
Tract context
Occupied units466
Renter share18.2%
SVI overall0.56
Poverty rate4.7%
Median income$110,577

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#11 of 15 tracts In Saint Albans
Low
Within parent city
23 th percentile
Rank, 23rd percentileLowHigh
#1,792 of 2,324 tracts In New York
Low
Within county
16 th percentile
Rank, 16th percentileLowHigh
#609 of 724 tracts In Queens County
Very Low
Within state
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#2,305 of 5,394 tracts In New York
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across New York and the region

Centroid at 40.6981, -73.7649 · click any tract to drill in

Why Saint Albans scores 8.4

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
4.7% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$1,451 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Saint Albans compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Saint Albans risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.4This tracttract 0400009.6New Yorkparent city9.3Countyavg tract in county7.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 56

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)

  • 68Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 11.29%Avg annual filing rate
  • 17.7%Peak (2016)
  • 18Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 36081040000
Filings climbed 64% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Saint Albans. 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 Saint Albans

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.2/10.

Average gross rent is $1,451, 20% below the New York average. Cost burden runs 45% here against 49.8% across Queens County. Housing insecurity runs 22.8% against 14.2% nationally.

Against the Queens County average of 9.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. Court records carry 68 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 17.7% of renter households were served. 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.

In a typical year about 11.3% of renter households face a filing.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 36081040000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36081040000?

Census tract 36081040000 in the Saint Albans neighborhood scores 8.4/10 (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 36081040000?

Median gross rent is $1,451/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 36081040000?

4.7% of residents in tract 36081040000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,691.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 36081040000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 56th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 52th, household 60th, minority 98th, housing 31th.
Q5

Is tract 36081040000 considered part of Saint Albans?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36081040000 fall within Saint Albans (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 36081040000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 68 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 36081040000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.29% of renter households, peaking at 17.7% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 36081040000 struggle to pay rent?

About 22.8% 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. 12.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 36081040000 compare to New York overall?

Tract 36081040000 scores 8.4/10, 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 36081040000 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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