Within neighborhood
8
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #6,676 of 84,120 nationally
Kew Gardens Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36081076902 · Queens County, NY · pop 1,245 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
36081076902 is a census tract in the Kew Gardens area of New York, NY. It scores 8.2/10 for landlords. It is home to 1,245 residents. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.
Risk score
8.2
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 44%
Owners 32%
Tract context
Occupied units575
Renter share68.0%
SVI overall0.35
Poverty rate4.7%
Median income$133,438
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
12
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
1
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
54
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.7150, -73.8340 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kew Gardens scores 8.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
4.7% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$2,250 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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 Kew Gardens compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 35
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 2%Socioeconomic
- 33%Household composition
- 77%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 60%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.
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)
- 184Total filings over 7 yrs
- 4.70%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.0%Peak (2005)
- 16Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 16% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Kew Gardens. 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.
- 8.2%Housing insecurity
- 3.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.8%Food insecurity
- 4.3%SNAP enrollment
- 4.5%Transit barriers
- 4.3%No health insurance
- 10.6%Frequent mental distress
- 16.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Kew Gardens
35% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Queens County average of 49.8%. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.2/10.
68% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Disability prevalence runs 16.7% against 31.5% nationally.
At $2,250 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of New York commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Queens County average of 9.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 184 filings here across 7 tracked years. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2005 at 7.0% of renter households.
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 4.7% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 92% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.2/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 36081076902
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36081076902?
Census tract 36081076902 in the Kew Gardens neighborhood scores 8.2/10 (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 average rent in tract 36081076902?
Median gross rent is $2,250/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 36081076902?
4.7% of residents in tract 36081076902 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,245.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 36081076902?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 35th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 2th, household 33th, minority 77th, housing 87th.
Q5
Is tract 36081076902 considered part of Kew Gardens?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36081076902 fall within Kew Gardens (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 36081076902?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 184 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 36081076902 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.70% of renter households, peaking at 7.0% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 36081076902 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.2% 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. 3.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 36081076902 compare to New York overall?
Tract 36081076902 scores 8.2/10, 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.
Q9
Was tract 36081076902 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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.
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