University Heights Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.4/10. It sits 2.5 points above the Erie County average of 6.8. The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Set annual rent against average income of $39,167 and the ratio lands at 39%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. This is renter territory: 80% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Against Erie County at 44.6%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10.

SNAP participation runs 28.9% against 15.2% nationally. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. Average gross rent is $1,260, 20% above the Buffalo average.

Housing insecurity runs 22.7% against 14.2% nationally. 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. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.1/10.

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.