Kenmore Eviction Risk: Moderate

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against the Erie County average of 6.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Running hot, state political climate reads 7.3/10. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally.

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 #20,506 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 21% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $74,821, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.9 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.