Cambria Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , New York
Tract 36081061200 · Queens County, NY · pop 2,032 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 36081061200 covers Cambria Heights in New York, home to 2,032 residents. For landlords it grades 7.1/10, an elevated reading. That is riskier than about 95% of US census tracts.
About 100% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 0% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average household income is about $132,969 a year. About 6% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.6883, -73.7367 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cambria Heights scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Cambria Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 33
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 26%Socioeconomic
- 34%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 27%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
- 46%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)
- 19Total filings over 6 yrs
- 8.23%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.9%Peak (2004)
- 3Filings 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.
- 17.6%Housing insecurity
- 9.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.2%Food insecurity
- 13.4%SNAP enrollment
- 8.9%Transit barriers
- 5.5%No health insurance
- 13.1%Frequent mental distress
- 27.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Cambria Heights
The heaviest input here 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 about the same as the Queens County average of 7.0 and above the New York statewide average of 6.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 17.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 9.0% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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