Seneca Babcock Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo

Against Erie County at 44.6%, 61% of renters here are cost-burdened. SNAP participation runs 37.2% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 2.5 points above the Erie County average of 6.8.

The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8/10. Food insecurity runs 33.3% against 17.8% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. On the high side, economic stress reads 7.8/10. At $878 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Buffalo commands.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 96th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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.