Wakefield Eviction Risk: High , New York

Against Bronx County at 56.0%, 77% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.6/10.

Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $49,375, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. SNAP participation runs 33.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Housing insecurity runs 31.3% against 14.2% nationally. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.2/10.

This is renter territory: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Court records carry 1,240 eviction filings across 8 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2000, when 21.0% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Bronx. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 18.1% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 97th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.3/10.

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