North Park Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo

At $1,500 a month, rents run 43% over what the rest of Buffalo commands. It sits 1.9 points above the Erie County average of 6.8. Against Erie County at 44.6%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened.

The voucher gap is 27.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 7.8/10. 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. Nationally it ranks #4,888 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 5.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $59,745.

56% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.