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Neighborhood · Ranked #9,927 of 84,120 nationally

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%.

Risk score
7.6
Elevated
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9% Stable renters 26% Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units1,062
Renter share34.7%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate8.6%
Median income$71,197

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 4 tracts In RiverBend
Very Low
Within parent city
9 th percentile
Rank, 9th percentileLowHigh
#83 of 91 tracts In Buffalo
Very Low
Within county
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#93 of 260 tracts In Erie County
Elevated
Within state
42 th percentile
Rank, 42nd percentileLowHigh
#3,142 of 5,394 tracts In New York
Moderate
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Buffalo
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
New York legislature & governorship
7.3
Economic stress
8.6% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$1,155 rent vs county FMR
4.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Buffalo
7.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Buffalo
7.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Buffalo
7.5

How RiverBend compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
RiverBend risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.6This tracttract 0009007.9Buffaloparent city6.8Countyavg tract in county7.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 15

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

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.

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

Within RiverBend. 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.

Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 36029000900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36029000900?

Census tract 36029000900 in the RiverBend neighborhood scores 7.6/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 36029000900?

Median gross rent is $1,155/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 27% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 36029000900?

8.6% of residents in tract 36029000900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,280.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 36029000900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 17th, household 29th, minority 23th, housing 21th.
Q5

Is tract 36029000900 considered part of RiverBend?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36029000900 fall within RiverBend (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 36029000900 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.5% 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.
Q7

How does tract 36029000900 compare to Buffalo overall?

Tract 36029000900 scores 7.6/10, lower than the parent city of Buffalo at 7.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Buffalo eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 36029000900 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 Buffalo

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

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