Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally
Wave Crest Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36081101002 · Queens County, NY · pop 5,916 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
36081101002 is a census tract in the Wave Crest area of New York, NY. It scores 9.9/10 for landlords. Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 49.8% across Queens County.
Risk score
9.9
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 45%
Tract context
Occupied units1,866
Renter share55.7%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate17.2%
Median income$52,716
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
80
th percentile
High
Within county
99
th percentile
Very High
Within state
100
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.5987, -73.7413 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wave Crest scores 9.9
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
17.2% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$1,072 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Wave Crest compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 44%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 100%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 42%Grade C
- 11%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)
- 310Total filings over 7 yrs
- 4.15%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.7%Peak (2016)
- 87Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 135% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Wave Crest. 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.
- 15.0%Housing insecurity
- 8.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.5%Food insecurity
- 14.8%SNAP enrollment
- 9.2%Transit barriers
- 6.9%No health insurance
- 15.7%Frequent mental distress
- 29.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Wave Crest
Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.
At $1,072 a month, rents run 41% under what the rest of New York commands. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 310 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2016 at 7.7% of renter households.
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 4.2% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 36081101002
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36081101002?
Census tract 36081101002 in the Wave Crest neighborhood scores 9.9/10 (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 average rent in tract 36081101002?
Median gross rent is $1,072/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 67% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 36081101002?
17.2% of residents in tract 36081101002 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,916.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 36081101002?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 44th, household 95th, minority 49th, housing 100th.
Q5
Is tract 36081101002 considered part of Wave Crest?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36081101002 fall within Wave Crest (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 36081101002?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 310 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 36081101002 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.15% of renter households, peaking at 7.7% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 36081101002 struggle to pay rent?
About 15.0% 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. 8.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 36081101002 compare to New York overall?
Tract 36081101002 scores 9.9/10, higher 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 36081101002 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. 11% 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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