Little Italy Eviction Risk: High , Niagara Falls

It sits 2.1 points above the Niagara County average of 6.4. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10.

Housing insecurity runs 29.5% against 14.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.2/10. 16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Cost burden runs 45% here against 40.9% across Niagara County. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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.

That is riskier than roughly 94% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 8.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $830, close to the Niagara Falls 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.