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

Cambria Heights Eviction Risk: High , New York

Tract 36081061000 · Queens County, NY · pop 1,583 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

With a score of 9/10, tract 36081061000 in the Cambria Heights area of New York, NY reads high for landlord eviction risk. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.

Risk score
9
High
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3% Stable renters 3% Owners 94%
Tract context
Occupied units412
Renter share6.8%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate5.8%
Median income$87,500

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 17 tracts In Cambria Heights
High
Within parent city
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#1,522 of 2,324 tracts In New York
Low
Within county
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#496 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 40.6902, -73.7433 · 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
5.8% poverty · this tract
1.4
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Cambria Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Cambria Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state9.0This tracttract 0610009.6New Yorkparent city9.3Countyavg tract in county7.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 15

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)

  • 41Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 30.98%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.7%Peak (2001)
  • 4Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 36081061000
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

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.4/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. The filing record is not thin: 41 evictions over 7 years of observation.

Housing insecurity runs 21.6% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2001 at 9.7% of renter households. 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 31.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #4,119 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 7% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.3/10.

Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 36081061000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36081061000?

Census tract 36081061000 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 poverty rate in tract 36081061000?

5.8% of residents in tract 36081061000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,583.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 36081061000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 23th, household 2th, minority 98th, housing 27th.
Q4

Is tract 36081061000 considered part of Cambria Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36081061000 fall within Cambria Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 36081061000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 41 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 36081061000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 30.98% of renter households, peaking at 9.7% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 36081061000 struggle to pay rent?

About 21.6% 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.
Q7

How does tract 36081061000 compare to New York overall?

Tract 36081061000 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.
Q8

Was tract 36081061000 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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