Mastic Beach Eviction Risk: High

Cost burden runs 71% here against 51.3% across Suffolk County. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10. Running hot, economic stress reads 9.3/10.

The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 2.2 points above the Suffolk County average of 6.3. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.9/10.

Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $107,730, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. At $2,906 a month, rents run 20% over what the rest of Mastic Beach commands. Food insecurity runs 27.7% against 17.8% nationally.

The voucher gap is 12.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. That is riskier than roughly 94% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.