RiverBend Eviction Risk: Elevated , Buffalo
Tract 36029000900 · Erie County, NY · pop 2,280 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Tract 36029000900 sits in the RiverBend area of Buffalo eviction risk, NY, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.6/10. It is home to 2,280 residents. roughly one in four of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Erie County average of 44.6%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Buffalo and the region
Centroid at 42.8539, -78.8165 · click any tract to drill in
Why RiverBend scores 7.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow RiverBend compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 15
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 17%Socioeconomic
- 29%Household composition
- 23%Racial/ethnic minority
- 21%Housing & transportation
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
- 85%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within RiverBend. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.5%Housing insecurity
- 7.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.6%Food insecurity
- 10.0%SNAP enrollment
- 7.0%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 17.1%Frequent mental distress
- 21.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in RiverBend
The dominant input is local political climate at 8/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.2/10.
Against the Erie County average of 6.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points. At $1,155 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Buffalo commands.
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 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.3/10. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $71,197.
35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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.
About tract 36029000900
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