Cheektowaga Eviction Risk: Elevated

The score leans hardest on state political climate at 7.3/10. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.9/10.

The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. SNAP participation runs 23.9% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 0.8 points above the Erie County average of 6.8. At $924 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Cheektowaga 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.

Nationally it ranks #9,927 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. The legal-climate inputs (statute speed, court posture, rent-regulation exposure) come from Cheektowaga eviction risk as a whole. Only the economic and supply signals are measured inside this tract. Social vulnerability reads 7.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $45,376.

59% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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