East Elmhurst Eviction Risk: High , New York

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.3/10. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.

The filing record is not thin: 280 evictions over 7 years of observation. Housing insecurity runs 21.2% against 14.2% nationally. Against the Queens County average of 9.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points.

Filings peaked in 2000 at 13.0% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 9.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 94th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 52% of renters. Average gross rent is $1,958, close to the New York average.

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