TITLE: Density of p-ordinary modular forms
QUESTION [8 upvotes]: Fix an odd prime $p$.
For concreteness, let $N$ be coprime to $p$, and let $2 \leq k \leq p$.  Let $S^+(N,k)$ be the newforms in $S_k(\Gamma_1(N))$.
Let $f = \sum a_n q^n \in S^+(N,k)$. We say that $f$ is $p$-ordinary if $v_p(a_p)=0$. (If $p$ splits in the field of coefficients of $f$, we require that $a_p$ not be divisible by any prime $\mathfrak{p}$ above $p$.)
For a "random" $N$ and $k$ satisfying the conditions I set out at the beginning, what can be said about the proportion of $p$-ordinary forms in $S^+(N,k)$? 
If we let $N$ and $k$ vary, can we say anything about the density of $p$-ordinary forms in the union $\bigcup_{N,k} S_k^+(\Gamma_1(N))$?

REPLY [2 votes]: An ordinary modular form needs to be $p$-stable (by definition). If you have a modular form of level $N$ co-prime to $p$, you need to associate a $p$-stabilization to this latter to get an ordinary modular form with level $Np$.
If you take $T$ the Hecke algebra acting on Katz p-adic modular forms, it is known that the classical points are dense in $\operatorname{Spec}T$, and $T$ has krull dimension at least $4$, but the ordinary Hecke algebra has a dimension equal to $2$.