Skunk City Eviction Risk: High , Syracuse

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 51.7% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 57%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

It sits 2.5 points above the Onondaga County average of 6.6. Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $27,065, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Against Onondaga County at 43.5%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.6/10. Disability prevalence runs 45.1% against 31.5% nationally.

On the high side, state political climate reads 7.3/10. At $873 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Syracuse commands.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Syracuse. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #3,797 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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