Cambria Heights Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36081060000 · Queens County, NY · pop 1,012 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 36081060000 covers part of the Cambria Heights area of New York, NY, and scores 9.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,012 residents. The score leans hardest on 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 40.6951, -73.7333 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cambria Heights scores 9.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Cambria Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 25
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 36%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 22%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.
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)
- 33Total filings over 7 yrs
- 15.93%Avg annual filing rate
- 25.9%Peak (2016)
- 7Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Cambria Heights. 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.
- 20.5%Housing insecurity
- 11.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.5%Food insecurity
- 17.3%SNAP enrollment
- 10.6%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 14.1%Frequent mental distress
- 28.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Cambria Heights
At $1,085 a month, rents run 40% under what the rest of New York commands. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. 56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Queens County average of 49.8%. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 33 filings here across 7 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2016, when 25.9% 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 15.9% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 96th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 17% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Against average income of $100,000, annual rent is just 13%. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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