NYC Council District Housing Report Card

Housing problems in New York City are concentrated in a small number of council districts. In 2025, District 15 in the Bronx had 328.3 immediately hazardous (Class C) HPD violations for every 1,000 homes, against a citywide rate of 74.5. The same handful of Bronx and Upper Manhattan districts also lead on heat complaints and evictions.

How this report card works

We counted three things in each of the city's 51 council districts, using the district each record is tagged with in NYC Open Data:

• Class C violations: HPD housing code violations rated "immediately hazardous" with an inspection date in calendar 2025. HPD sorts violations into Class A (non-hazardous), B (hazardous) and C (immediately hazardous). Class C covers conditions such as no heat or hot water, lead-based paint, missing window guards, mold, and mice, roaches and rats, each with its own correction deadline. See violation classes explained.
• Heat complaints: complaints to HPD with a heat or hot water problem received from October 1, 2025 through May 31, 2026, which is the city's legal heat season. We counted distinct complaint IDs.
• Evictions: residential evictions carried out by city marshals with an executed date in calendar 2025.

Big districts produce big numbers, so we also divided each count by the number of residential units in the district from PLUTO 26v2, the city's tax lot database. Those are the "per 1,000 units" rates below. Across all districts, PLUTO counts 3,735,284 residential units.

Hazardous violations: the Bronx leads

The four districts with the highest Class C rate are all in the Bronx, and 6 of the top 15 are mainly in the Bronx. District 15 leads with 328.3 per 1,000 units, followed by District 14 (273.3) and District 16 (268.7). The highest Brooklyn district is 40, and the highest in Manhattan is 10. At the other end, District 51 (Staten Island) recorded 2.5 per 1,000 units, so the gap between the top and bottom district is roughly 131 to one.

The median district had 49.9 Class C violations per 1,000 units, well below the citywide figure of 74.5. That tells you the citywide average is pulled up by a minority of districts with very high counts.

Heat complaints: Upper Manhattan joins the Bronx

HPD received 340,160 heat and hot water complaints with a known council district during the 2025-26 heat season. By raw count, District 9 (Manhattan) had the most, 21,231. Adjusted for size, District 14 (Bronx) had the highest rate at 284.8 complaints per 1,000 units, with District 10 (Manhattan) close behind at 276.9. Upper Manhattan's District 10 ranks second on heat complaints per unit and District 9 fifth, higher than either ranks on Class C violations.

A complaint is not proof that a building was cold. HPD only issues a heat violation when an inspector finds the indoor temperature below the legal minimum (68°F during the day when it is below 55°F outside, 62°F at night). Some buildings also generate many complaints from many apartments for a single outage. See NYC heat and hot water rules and the 2025-26 heat season report.

Evictions follow the same map

City marshals carried out 17,791 residential evictions in 2025. 16,695 of them are tagged with a council district. District 15 had the highest rate, 12.36 per 1,000 units, and the top four by rate are all in the Bronx. District 31 (Queens) is the highest-ranking district outside the Bronx, at 9.95 per 1,000 units.

6 districts land in the top 10 on all three rates: District 9 (Manhattan), District 11 (Bronx), District 14 (Bronx), District 15 (Bronx), District 16 (Bronx), District 17 (Bronx). The data shows these problems overlap; it does not show that one causes another.

All 51 districts

Limits of this data

• Violations reflect inspections. Violations are issued after inspections, and many inspections follow tenant complaints, so districts where tenants report problems more often can show more violations. A low count does not prove good conditions.
• The unit count includes every home. PLUTO residential units include one- and two-family houses, condos and co-ops, where tenants rarely file HPD complaints. Districts with many owner-occupied homes will have low rates partly for that reason.
• Missing districts. 1,096 residential evictions (6% of the 2025 total) have no council district in the source data and are left out of the district figures. Very few violations (129) and heat complaints (36) are missing a district.
• Districts span boroughs. Some districts cross borough lines. We list boroughs in order of how many residential units each holds.
• Snapshot dates differ. Violations and evictions cover calendar 2025; heat complaints cover the October 2025 to May 2026 heat season. All files were queried on 2026-10-12, and records can still be added or corrected later.