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Neighborhood · Ranked #5,413 of 84,120 nationally

Little Italy Eviction Risk: High , Niagara Falls

Tract 36063020700 · Niagara County, NY · pop 2,631 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

With a score of 8.5/10, tract 36063020700 in the Little Italy area of Niagara Falls, NY reads high for landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 42%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
8.5
High
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31% Stable renters 9% Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units1,148
Renter share40.5%
SVI overall0.82
Poverty rate34.1%
Median income$46,523

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 11 tracts In Little Italy
Moderate
Within parent city
53 th percentile
Rank, 53rd percentileLowHigh
#10 of 20 tracts In Niagara Falls
Moderate
Within county
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#8 of 65 tracts In Niagara County
High
Within state
59 th percentile
Rank, 59th percentileLowHigh
#2,229 of 5,394 tracts In New York
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Niagara Falls and the region

Centroid at 43.1045, -79.0341 · click any tract to drill in

Why Little Italy scores 8.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Niagara Falls
5.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.5
State political climate
New York legislature & governorship
7.3
Economic stress
34.1% poverty · this tract
8.5
Supply constraint
$868 rent vs county FMR
2.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Niagara Falls
8.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Niagara Falls
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Niagara Falls
8.4

How Little Italy compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Little Italy risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.5This tracttract 0207007.1Niagara Fallsparent city6.4Countyavg tract in county7.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 82

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Little Italy. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Little Italy

77% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Niagara County average of 40.9%. It sits 2.1 points above the Niagara County average of 6.4.

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.5/10.

SNAP participation runs 31.2% against 15.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10.

Housing insecurity runs 23.4% against 14.2% nationally. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Niagara Falls. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 94% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $868, close to the Niagara Falls average.

Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $46,523.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 36063020700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36063020700?

Census tract 36063020700 in the Little Italy neighborhood scores 8.5/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 36063020700?

Median gross rent is $868/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 77% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 36063020700?

34.1% of residents in tract 36063020700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,631.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 36063020700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 82th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 77th, household 54th, minority 70th, housing 89th.
Q5

Is tract 36063020700 considered part of Little Italy?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36063020700 fall within Little Italy (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 36063020700 struggle to pay rent?

About 23.4% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 16.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 36063020700 compare to Niagara Falls overall?

Tract 36063020700 scores 8.5/10, higher than the parent city of Niagara Falls at 7.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Niagara Falls eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 36063020700 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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