Kensington Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 51.4% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 45.1% against 17.8% nationally.

The poverty rate is 45%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 2.5 points above the Erie County average of 6.8.

Cost burden runs 57% here against 44.6% across Erie County. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 96th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.5/10, 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.