Collegetown Eviction Risk: High , Ithaca

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 49%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

98% 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. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.8/10. It sits 2.4 points above the Tompkins County average of 7.5.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.3/10. Set annual rent against average income of $45,595 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Food insecurity runs 27.5% against 17.8% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 100% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 5.8/10 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 household composition measure is the least pressured. 54% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Average gross rent is $1,434, close to the Ithaca average.

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.