Buffalo Eviction Risk: Elevated

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.

On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. Food insecurity runs 8.4% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.0% against 15.2% nationally.

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. Nationally it ranks #15,451 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 22% 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 1.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $90,852, annual rent is just 14%. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 41% of renters. It tracks the Erie County average of 6.8 closely.

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