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Neighborhood · Ranked #8,912 of 84,120 nationally

Cambria Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , New York

Tract 36081059600 · Queens County, NY · pop 1,539 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 36081059600 runs through Cambria Heights in New York. With 1,539 residents, it scores 5.8/10 for landlords. That is riskier than roughly 68% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 11% of renter households, a modest level, and 6% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,750 a month against an average household income of $100,625 a year, roughly 21% of income at the averages. Renters make up 7% of occupied homes.

Risk score
6.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1% Stable renters 6% Owners 93%
Tract context
Occupied units534
Renter share6.6%
SVI overall0.68
Poverty rate6.5%
Median income$100,625

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#7 of 17 tracts In Cambria Heights
Elevated
Within parent city
25 th percentile
Rank, 25th percentileLowHigh
#1,749 of 2,324 tracts In New York
Low
Within county
24 th percentile
Rank, 24th percentileLowHigh
#548 of 724 tracts In Queens County
Low
Within state
53 th percentile
Rank, 53rd percentileLowHigh
#2,561 of 5,394 tracts In New York
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across New York and the region

Centroid at 40.6971, -73.7371 · click any tract to drill in

Why Cambria Heights scores 6.3

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
6.5% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$1,750 rent vs county FMR
1.3
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 / stateThis tract: 6.36.3This tracttract 059600New York: 9.79.7New Yorkparent cityCounty: 6.86.8Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.95.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 68

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)

  • 43Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 6.50%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.8%Peak (2000)
  • 7Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 360810596002000: 8 filings (8.79/100 renter HHs)2001: 8 filings (8.79/100 renter HHs)2002: 1 filings (1.10/100 renter HHs)2004: 5 filings (5.49/100 renter HHs)2005: 7 filings (6.54/100 renter HHs)2006: 7 filings (6.54/100 renter HHs)2016: 7 filings (8.24/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat 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

What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 9.8/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from New York eviction laws, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Queens County average of 7.0 and below the New York statewide average of 6.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 68th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.

In CDC survey modeling, about 21.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 11.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 36081059600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36081059600?

Census tract 36081059600 in the Cambria Heights neighborhood scores 6.3/10 (Elevated 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 36081059600?

Median gross rent is $1,750/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 11% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 36081059600?

6.5% of residents in tract 36081059600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,539.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 36081059600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 68th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 61th, household 98th, minority 98th, housing 14th.
Q5

Is tract 36081059600 considered part of Cambria Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36081059600 fall within Cambria Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 36081059600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 43 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 36081059600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.50% of renter households, peaking at 8.8% in 2000. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 36081059600 struggle to pay rent?

About 21.1% 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. 11.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 36081059600 compare to New York overall?

Tract 36081059600 scores 6.3/10, lower than the parent city of New York at 9.7/10. 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 36081059600 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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