Flushing Chinatown Eviction Risk: High , New York

Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.8/10. Set annual rent against average income of $53,981 and the ratio lands at 46%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Food insecurity runs 38.2% against 17.8% nationally. 66% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

SNAP participation runs 29.1% against 15.2% nationally. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 125 filings here across 7 tracked years. At $2,053 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of New York commands. The worst year on record was 2001, when 8.1% of renter households were served.

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 3.1% of renter households face a filing.

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.