East Elmhurst Eviction Risk: High , New York

Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 49.8% across Queens County. 30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Set annual rent against average income of $75,583 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Average gross rent is $2,410, 32% above the New York average. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.

Food insecurity runs 30.6% against 17.8% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. Housing insecurity runs 24.8% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 127 filings here across 7 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2001 at 5.4% of renter households. 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 4.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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