Kew Gardens Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36081075701 · Queens County, NY · pop 4,845 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 36081075701 sits in the Kew Gardens area of New York eviction laws, NY, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.5/10. What pushes it up most is 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 40.7182, -73.8348 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kew Gardens scores 8.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Kew Gardens compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 44
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 26%Socioeconomic
- 37%Household composition
- 71%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 3%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 447Total filings over 7 yrs
- 6.81%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.1%Peak (2001)
- 42Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Kew Gardens. 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.
- 10.5%Housing insecurity
- 4.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.5%Food insecurity
- 7.7%SNAP enrollment
- 6.0%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 11.7%Frequent mental distress
- 22.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Kew Gardens
21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.
Running cool, economic stress reads 1.9/10. Cost burden runs 43% here against 49.8% across Queens County.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 447 filings here across 7 tracked years. Against the Queens County average of 9.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. SNAP participation runs 7.7% against 15.2% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2001, when 7.1% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 6.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 94th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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