Jackson Heights Eviction Risk: High , New York

Set annual rent against average income of $54,111 and the ratio lands at 42%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.7/10. 58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Queens County average of 49.8%.

Food insecurity runs 31.4% against 17.8% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.

The filing record is not thin: 822 evictions over 7 years of observation. Housing insecurity runs 21.3% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2002 at 11.4% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 10.6% of renter households face a filing.

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