Red Top Eviction Risk: Lower , Suffolk

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 2.5/10. 52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Suffolk City average of 46.8%.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 406 filings here across 6 tracked years. At $1,345 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Suffolk commands. It sits 0.6 points below the Suffolk City average of 3.6.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 25.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 20.4% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.4/10. Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $130,250, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.