Kensington Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo

Cost burden runs 77% here against 44.6% across Erie County. Against the Erie County average of 6.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8/10.

Food insecurity runs 32.6% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. Nationally it ranks #3,082 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.4/10.

Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $980, close to the Buffalo average.

Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $38,690.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.