Downtown Jamestown Eviction Risk: High

The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.2/10. Against the Chautauqua County average of 6.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points.

Set annual rent against average income of $21,786 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.

Food insecurity runs 30.7% against 17.8% nationally. Against Chautauqua County at 43.9%, roughly one in two of renters here are cost-burdened. Average gross rent is $621, 18% below the Jamestown average.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 93rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.1/10. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.