Wakefield Eviction Risk: High , New York

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Annualized rent equals 52% of average household income of $32,279, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. SNAP participation runs 51.4% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 51.3% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 44%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.8/10. 95% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.6/10.

Cost burden runs 65% here against 56.0% across Bronx County. Average gross rent is $1,407, 23% below the New York average. The filing record is not thin: 2,053 evictions over 8 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2002, when 24.9% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

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.