Jackson Heights Eviction Risk: High , New York
Tract 36081026700 · Queens County, NY · pop 5,342 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 36081026700 sits in the Jackson Heights area of New York eviction laws, NY, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.9/10. It is home to 5,342 residents. The severe-burden share is 45%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across New York and the region
Centroid at 40.7453, -73.8880 · click any tract to drill in
Why Jackson Heights scores 9.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Jackson Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 32%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 90%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
- 0%Grade B
- 74%Grade C
- 0%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.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 880Total filings over 7 yrs
- 7.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.3%Peak (2001)
- 103Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Jackson Heights. 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.
- 16.5%Housing insecurity
- 7.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.9%Food insecurity
- 13.0%SNAP enrollment
- 9.1%Transit barriers
- 10.8%No health insurance
- 12.0%Frequent mental distress
- 23.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Jackson Heights
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. Set annual rent against average income of $58,077 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.7/10. Cost burden runs 59% here against 49.8% across Queens County.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Court records carry 880 eviction filings across 7 observed years. The worst year on record was 2001, when 8.3% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Queens. 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 7.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Queens County average of 9.3 closely.
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.
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