North Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Buffalo

Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 44.6% across Erie County. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8/10.

66% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

Average gross rent is $1,292, 24% above the Buffalo average. Disability prevalence runs 19.2% against 31.5% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. Against the Erie County average of 6.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.

Food insecurity runs 10.5% against 17.8% 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 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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