Rifton Eviction Risk: Moderate

22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.8/10. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, state political climate reads 7.3/10. Against the Ulster County average of 6.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points.

Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 7.1/10. Nationally it ranks #20,506 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 21% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $84,741, annual rent is just 17%. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $1,232, close to the Rifton 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.