Kensington Eviction Risk: Elevated , Buffalo
Tract 36029010202 · Erie County, NY · pop 4,975 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
With a score of 7/10, tract 36029010202 in the Kensington area of Cheektowaga, NY reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,975 residents. 40% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Buffalo and the region
Centroid at 42.9318, -78.7920 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kensington scores 7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Kensington compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 48
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 45%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 75%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 23%Grade B
- 15%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Kensington. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 17.9%Housing insecurity
- 11.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.9%Food insecurity
- 17.7%SNAP enrollment
- 11.3%Transit barriers
- 6.4%No health insurance
- 19.0%Frequent mental distress
- 24.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Kensington
Cost burden runs 53% here against 44.6% across Erie County. The score leans hardest on state political climate at 7.3/10.
This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Buffalo. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. The legal-climate inputs (statute speed, court posture, rent-regulation exposure) come from Cheektowaga eviction risk as a whole. Only the economic and supply signals are measured inside this tract.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Erie County average of 6.8 closely. Average gross rent is $1,043, close to the Cheektowaga average. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $60,052.
34% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 36029010202
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