Kensington Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 33.9% against 15.2% nationally.

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8/10. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. Housing insecurity runs 28.0% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

At $954 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Buffalo commands. 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.

That is riskier than roughly 96% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.