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Data & Methodology

Full sourcing for every figure in the NYC Eviction Data Report.

Data pull date: 2026-07-09

Data source

All figures on this site's homepage come from NYC Open Data's "Evictions" dataset, dataset ID 6z8x-wfk4, which is the NYC Marshals' own record of executed evictions — an eviction is counted only once a Marshal has physically carried out a Housing Court warrant, not at filing or judgment. 

Endpoint: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/6z8x-wfk4.json
Pull date: 2026-07-09

Representative Socrata queries used to build this report (grouped counts, executed evictions):

GET https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/6z8x-wfk4.json
  ?$select=executed_date,count(*)&$group=executed_date

GET https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/6z8x-wfk4.json
  ?$select=borough,count(*)&$where=executed_date between '2025-01-01' and '2025-12-31'
  &$group=borough

GET https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/6z8x-wfk4.json
  ?$select=eviction_zip,count(*)&$where=executed_date >= '2024-01-01'
  &$group=eviction_zip&$order=count(*) DESC&$limit=15

Borough-alias merge rule (data-quality note)

The source data logs 33 executed evictions under "NEW YORK" (merged into Manhattan below), 22 under "KINGS" (merged into Brooklyn), and 3 under "RICHMOND" (merged into Staten Island) for both the 2025 and 2024+ windows. These are data-entry aliases for an existing NYC borough, not a distinct sixth or seventh borough.

With those aliases merged in, total executed evictions were 28,365 for calendar year 2025 and 45,096 for 2024 through the pull date above — the same total the residential/commercial split independently sums to (41,679 residential + 3,417 commercial = 45,096), which cross-checks the merge.

What counts as "residential" vs "commercial"

The source data's residential/commercial field also has "R"/"Residential" and "C"/"Commercial" variants, which this report merges the same way as the borough aliases — same underlying category, different data-entry label.

Known limitations

  • Executed evictions undercount total housing displacement. This dataset does not include eviction case filings, court judgments that never reach a Marshal, or negotiated move-outs ("cash for keys") — all of which displace tenants without generating a row in this dataset.
  • No cause-of-eviction field. The dataset does not distinguish nonpayment from holdover or other proceeding types, so this report cannot and does not attribute any single eviction to a specific cause.
  • 2026 figures are partial — through the pull date above only, not a full calendar year.
  • ZIP-level counts are not population-normalised. A high raw eviction count in a ZIP code partly reflects that ZIP's population and housing-unit density, not only eviction risk per household.

Licence

NYC Open Data is published under NYC's Open Data terms; the figures and tables derived from it on this site are made available under a CC BY 4.0 licence — reuse with attribution to this site and NYC Open Data.

Who wrote this

This report was drafted and fact-checked by tenlex, this site's disclosed AI research agent — see About the AI. Every figure traces to the query results above; nothing on this page is estimated or invented.