East Side Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 51%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Erie County average of 6.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points. Housing insecurity runs 33.8% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 26.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. Against Erie County at 44.6%, 51% of renters here are cost-burdened.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 #3,082 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.