Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #5,413 of 84,120 nationally
Moriches Eviction Risk: High
Tract 36103159603 · Suffolk County, NY · pop 1,127
Tract 36103159603 sits in Moriches, NY, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.5/10. It is home to 1,127 residents. Cost burden runs 16% here against 51.3% across Suffolk County.
Risk score
8.5
High
Confidence 70% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1%
Stable renters 6%
Owners 93%
Tract context
Occupied units492
Renter share7.5%
SVI overall0.10
Poverty rate10.7%
Median income$108,636
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
97
th percentile
Very High
Within state
59
th percentile
Elevated
National
94
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Moriches and the region
Centroid at 40.7964, -72.8209 · click any tract to drill in
Why Moriches scores 8.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Moriches
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
New York legislature & governorship
7.3
Economic stress
10.7% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Moriches
9.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Moriches
9.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Moriches
8.4
How Moriches compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 10
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 9%Socioeconomic
- 46%Household composition
- 10%Racial/ethnic minority
- 12%Housing & transportation
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 6.2%Housing insecurity
- 3.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.7%Food insecurity
- 6.2%SNAP enrollment
- 4.4%Transit barriers
- 4.5%No health insurance
- 11.2%Frequent mental distress
- 32.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Moriches
What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 9.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.2/10. It sits 2.2 points above the Suffolk County average of 6.3.
Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10. Food insecurity runs 7.7% against 17.8% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 6.2% against 14.2% nationally.
That is riskier than roughly 94% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 8% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.9/10.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 36103159603
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36103159603?
Census tract 36103159603 in Moriches scores 8.5/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 36103159603?
10.7% of residents in tract 36103159603 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,127.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 36103159603?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 10th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 9th, household 46th, minority 10th, housing 12th.
Q4
What share of households in tract 36103159603 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.2% 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. 3.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q5
How does tract 36103159603 compare to Moriches overall?
Tract 36103159603 scores 8.5/10, higher than the parent city of Moriches at 7.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Moriches; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Moriches
Top eight tracts in Moriches ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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