Housing & Real Estate Data retrieved 2026-08-22
Marshal evictions executed
Residential apartments a city marshal physically evicted each year: 20,803 in 2017, down to 160 during the 2021 moratorium, back to 17,791 by 2025.
17,791
residential evictions executed in 2025
Still below the 20,803 of 2017, the last full pre-pandemic year, and well above the 160 of 2021, when the eviction moratorium held courts largely closed.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Residential evictions executed by NYC marshals |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 20,803 |
| 2018 | 19,988 |
| 2019 | 17,036 |
| 2020 | 3,064 |
| 2021 | 160 |
| 2022 | 4,029 |
| 2023 | 12,025 |
| 2024 | 15,461 |
| 2025 | 17,791 |
The key years
What this counts
Residential evictions a New York City marshal physically executed in a calendar year, one row per apartment DOI's own eviction record lists as executed that year. Commercial evictions are recorded in the same dataset and excluded from this count.
What it does not say
- This counts executed evictions only, the last step after a court case. It does not count eviction filings or Housing Court cases, which run far higher: a case can be filed, and even reach judgment, without a marshal ever completing the eviction.
- Commercial evictions are excluded; this is residential only.
- 2021 and the year before it reflect the pandemic-era eviction moratorium, when courts were largely closed to eviction proceedings, not a genuine drop in housing instability, so those years are not comparable to the rest of the series.
The questions New Yorkers actually ask
How many evictions happen in NYC each year?
NYC marshals executed 17,791 residential evictions in 2025, per the Department of Investigation's own record. That is below the 20,803 executed in 2017, the last full year before the pandemic.
Did the NYC eviction moratorium stop evictions?
Executions fell from 20,803 in 2017 to just 160 in 2021, while courts were largely closed to eviction cases. They climbed back to 17,791 by 2025, still below the pre-pandemic level.
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