North Park Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo
Tract 36029005000 · Erie County, NY · pop 2,326 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 36029005000 covers part of the North Park area of Buffalo, NY, and scores 9.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,326 residents. It sits 2.5 points above the Erie County average of 6.8.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Buffalo and the region
Centroid at 42.9511, -78.8734 · click any tract to drill in
Why North Park scores 9.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow North Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 50
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 58%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 56%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 1%Grade B
- 32%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 North Park. 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.
- 16.1%Housing insecurity
- 10.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.1%Food insecurity
- 17.9%SNAP enrollment
- 10.2%Transit barriers
- 6.9%No health insurance
- 17.9%Frequent mental distress
- 25.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in North Park
Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Erie County average of 44.6%.
The dominant input is local political climate at 8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.
The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.
Average gross rent is $955, 9% below the Buffalo average. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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. Nationally it ranks #3,082 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.5/10. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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