Little Italy Eviction Risk: High , Niagara Falls

SNAP participation runs 45.1% against 15.2% nationally. Cost burden runs 57% here against 40.9% across Niagara County.

The poverty rate is 44%. 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.

Average gross rent is $508, 38% below the Niagara Falls average. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Against the Niagara County average of 6.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.1 points.

This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

Housing insecurity runs 29.0% against 14.2% nationally. 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. Nationally it ranks #5,413 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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