Census Tract · Ranked #15,451 of 84,120 nationally

Cheektowaga Eviction Risk: Elevated

Tract 36029010101 · Erie County, NY · pop 4,390

Tract 36029010101 sits in Cheektowaga eviction risk, NY, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.5/10. It is home to 4,390 residents. Severe burden reaches 38%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

6.5

Elevated

Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 3% Stable renters 4% Owners 93%

Tract context

Occupied units2,115

Renter share6.5%

SVI overall0.07

Poverty rate14.3%

Median income$70,719

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Cheektowaga and the region

Centroid at 42.9401, -78.7744 · click any tract to drill in

Why Cheektowaga scores 6.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Cheektowaga

6.2

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

5.7

State political climate

New York legislature & governorship

7.3

Economic stress

14.3% poverty · this tract

3.6

Supply constraint

$995 rent vs county FMR

3.5

Rent control risk

Inherited from Cheektowaga

5.7

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

6.8

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Cheektowaga

6.4

Housing court bias

Inherited from Cheektowaga

5.4

How Cheektowaga compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 7

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

24%Socioeconomic
10%Household composition
33%Racial/ethnic minority
5%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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
27%Grade B
0%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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

10.8%Housing insecurity
7.0%Utility-shutoff threat
11.4%Food insecurity
10.6%SNAP enrollment
6.8%Transit barriers
5.0%No health insurance
16.0%Frequent mental distress
23.2%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Cheektowaga

The dominant input is state political climate at 7.3/10. Cost burden runs 38% here against 44.6% across Erie County. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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.

That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 7% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Statute speed, court posture and rent-regulation exposure are inherited from Cheektowaga eviction risk rather than measured on these blocks; the economic and supply components are the tract-level part of the score.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.6/10. Against average income of $70,719, annual rent is just 17%. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Erie County average of 6.8 closely. Average gross rent is $995, close to the Cheektowaga average.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 36029010101

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36029010101?

Census tract 36029010101 in Cheektowaga scores 6.5/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 36029010101?

Median gross rent is $995/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 36029010101?

14.3% of residents in tract 36029010101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,390.

How socially vulnerable is tract 36029010101?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 24th, household 10th, minority 33th, housing 5th.

What share of households in tract 36029010101 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.8% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 7.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 36029010101 compare to Cheektowaga overall?

Tract 36029010101 scores 6.5/10, higher than the parent city of Cheektowaga at 6.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cheektowaga eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 36029010101 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Cheektowaga

Top eight tracts in Cheektowaga ranked by composite eviction-risk score.