Niagara Falls Eviction Risk: High
Tract 36063021100 · Niagara County, NY · pop 1,603
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 36063021100 (Niagara Falls, New York) comes in at 7.1/10, the Elevated tier. It lands near the 95th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
48% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 35% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $881 monthly, set against $36,494 in average yearly household income, roughly 29% of income at the averages. About 78% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Niagara Falls and the region
Centroid at 43.0836, -79.0606 · click any tract to drill in
Why Niagara Falls scores 8.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Niagara Falls compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 96
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 63%Racial/ethnic minority
- 70%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 19%Grade B
- 20%Grade C
- 1%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 24.2%Housing insecurity
- 17.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.8%Food insecurity
- 33.5%SNAP enrollment
- 15.9%Transit barriers
- 9.7%No health insurance
- 19.5%Frequent mental distress
- 36.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Niagara Falls
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 9.4/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Niagara Falls eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Niagara County average of 5.8 and above the New York statewide average of 6.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 24.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 17.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
Part of this tract, about 1% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 36063021100
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