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Neighborhood · Ranked #19,618 of 84,120 nationally

Northeast Ithaca Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 36109000500 · Tompkins County, NY · pop 4,439 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

36109000500 is a census tract in the Northeast Ithaca area of Northeast Ithaca, NY. It scores 5.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,439 residents. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.9
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28% Stable renters 23% Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units1,907
Renter share51.0%
SVI overall0.28
Poverty rate9.4%
Median income$92,335

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Northeast Ithaca
Very Low
Within parent city
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Ithaca
Moderate
Within county
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#18 of 26 tracts In Tompkins County
Low
Within state
23 th percentile
Rank, 23rd percentileLowHigh
#4,137 of 5,394 tracts In New York
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Ithaca and the region

Centroid at 42.4728, -76.4685 · click any tract to drill in

Why Northeast Ithaca scores 5.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Ithaca
7.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
New York legislature & governorship
7.3
Economic stress
9.4% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,590 rent vs county FMR
4.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Ithaca
7.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Ithaca
8.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Ithaca
5.6

How Northeast Ithaca compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Northeast Ithaca risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.9This tracttract 0005009.3Ithacaparent city7.5Countyavg tract in county7.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 28

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Northeast Ithaca. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Northeast Ithaca

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.1/10. Against the Tompkins County average of 7.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.6 points.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.7/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.4/10.

Food insecurity runs 8.1% against 17.8% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.8% against 11.3% nationally.

At $1,590 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Northeast Ithaca commands. That is riskier than roughly 77% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.8 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 55% of renters.

Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $92,335.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 36109000500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36109000500?

Census tract 36109000500 in the Northeast Ithaca neighborhood scores 5.9/10 (Moderate 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 36109000500?

Median gross rent is $1,590/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 36109000500?

9.4% of residents in tract 36109000500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,439.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 36109000500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 28th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 17th, household 11th, minority 49th, housing 70th.
Q5

Is tract 36109000500 considered part of Northeast Ithaca?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36109000500 fall within Northeast Ithaca (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 36109000500 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.6% 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. 4.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 36109000500 compare to Ithaca overall?

Tract 36109000500 scores 5.9/10, lower than the parent city of Ithaca at 9.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Ithaca eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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