Kensington Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo

Against the Erie County average of 6.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points. SNAP participation runs 36.8% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8/10.

Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. Against Erie County at 44.6%, roughly one in two of renters here are cost-burdened.

On the high side, economic stress reads 7.9/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

At $1,140 a month, rents run 9% 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. On the national scale it lands near the 96th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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.