How many New Yorkers face eviction, and where? In March 2023 we launched the Cornell ILR Eviction Filings Dashboard to answer that question from the court system’s own case records, alongside our brief No Shelter, No Safety. It was built for residents, policymakers and nonprofits working on housing.
Today we’re releasing a rebuilt dashboard. It follows the court records month by month from September 2018 to the latest month the court system has released, adds cities and towns and congressional districts, and brings in new measures of what is at stake for tenants and of the homes HUD subsidizes.
What’s in it
The dashboard is built from the de-identified landlord-tenant case records that the New York State Unified Court System publishes for New York City Civil Court, the City and District Courts and the community justice centers: about 1.47 million cases filed since September 2018. It pairs them with renter households and housing costs from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, and with data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on low-income renters, subsidized homes, Fair Market Rents and income limits. The About the data view lists each source.
Results are available for the state, New York City and the rest of the state, all 62 counties, 1,011 cities and towns, ZIP codes, and New York’s 63 Senate, 150 Assembly and 26 congressional districts. Cases are placed by the tenant’s ZIP code and counted by month, so the latest months can be compared with the same months a year earlier.
One gap remains from the first dashboard. The court records leave out the town and village courts that hear evictions across much of the state outside its cities. Erie County is the exception, since Buffalo City Court has heard its town and village cases since 2022. Statewide, 85% of renter households live where the records reach. The dashboard shows how much of each area the records cover and gives a filing rate only where they cover at least half of its renter households. On the maps, areas below that line are hatched rather than shown as low.
The dashboard is built in Python from public data, with every step from the court files to the charts in code, so it can be rebuilt each time the court system releases new records, about once a month. It shares its look with the rebuilt Wage Atlas and Federal Impacts Dashboard, and the rest of our data tools will follow.
How to use it
The views are listed across the top of the page.
- Map shows filings and the filing rate for counties, cities and towns, ZIP codes and Senate, Assembly and congressional districts in each year since 2018, along with who files, who has a lawyer and how cases end.
- Trends follows filings month by month for the state or any area, and compares this year with the same months of last year and of 2019, before the pandemic.
- What is at stake shows what renters owe when a landlord files, what it would cost to pay those arrears, and how cases go: who files, who has a lawyer and how cases end. Its calculator lets you choose which households to count and how many would take up help.
- Area profiles gives a printable sheet for any area, with its filings, its renters and their housing costs, HUD-assisted homes, Fair Market Rents and, for counties, cities and towns, the shortfall of subsidized homes.
- Rankings and downloads ranks areas on any measure and offers every year’s data as CSV and the map data as GeoJSON.
- Explainers puts the numbers in context, with pieces on how an eviction case moves through New York’s courts and what research says eviction does, on the shortfall of subsidized homes, and a glossary.
- About the data lists every source and explains the gap in the court records and how rates and costs are computed.
A few tips. Choose an area on any view, and the other views stay focused on it. On every map, a darker shade means more. Each panel says what it counts and offers its data for download.
What it shows
Filings are well below 2019’s level, but they are no longer falling. Landlords filed 164,767 residential eviction cases in 2025, 5.5 for every 100 renter households where the records reach, down from 240,341 (8.2 per 100) in 2019. Filings climbed after the state’s eviction moratorium ended in January 2022, to 186,944 in 2023, then eased. Through September, 2026 is running 2.2% ahead of the same months of 2025, with New York City up 3.2% and the rest of the state flat.
The highest filing rates are in upstate cities and the Bronx. Among the cities and towns the records cover, Troy had the highest filing rate in 2025, 11.7 filings per 100 renter households, followed by Poughkeepsie (10.9), Schenectady (10.6) and Elmira (10.2). In New York City, the Bronx’s rate of 9.5 was about two and a half times Manhattan’s 3.7. Buffalo’s rate fell from 13.2 in 2019 to 7.9 in 2025.
Landlords almost always have a lawyer. Tenants usually don’t. In 2025, landlords had a lawyer in 96% of cases and tenants in 21%. Tenants appeared in court in about half of cases, and fewer than half of those who did (41%) had a lawyer.
Outside New York City, more than half of cases lead to a judgment of possession. Of the cases filed outside the city in 2025, 56% led to a judgment of possession, which awards the landlord possession of the home, and 54% to a warrant of eviction. In the city, where cases take longer and a quarter of 2025’s are still open, 38% have reached a judgment of possession so far.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in back rent are at stake. Landlords brought 132,152 non-payment cases in 2025. Paying the back rent behind them would cost an estimated $633 million to $903 million, depending on whether each case is taken at the median claim ($5,350 in New York City and $3,525 elsewhere) or the average claim, with each claim capped at $25,000. The calculator in What is at stake narrows that to the households likely to qualify for help.
Subsidized housing falls far short of need. About 1.23 million renter households at or below half of their area’s median income pay more than 30% of their income for housing. HUD’s rental programs house about 492,000 households at that income, which leaves a shortfall of about 737,000 subsidized homes statewide, about 32,000 of them in Erie County. The dashboard estimates it for every county, city and town by the method of our 2021 report, Engaging the Future of Housing in Buffalo-Niagara. Another 516,000 owner households at that income also pay more than 30%. The profiles show them beside the shortfall rather than in it, since the shortfall compares renters with subsidized rental homes.
Tell us what you see
These are a few starting points. Open the dashboard, find your county, city or district, and see how eviction is reaching it. If you’re seeing changes the court records don’t show yet, or there’s something you’d like the dashboard to track, let us know.