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Neighborhood · Ranked #6,330 of 84,120 nationally

Parkside Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo

Tract 36029005300 · Erie County, NY · pop 1,658 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Census tract 36029005300 covers part of the Parkside area of Buffalo, NY, and scores 8.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Against Erie County at 44.6%, 20% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
8.3
High
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13% Stable renters 49% Owners 38%
Tract context
Occupied units495
Renter share61.4%
SVI overall0.30
Poverty rate14.4%
Median income$64,519

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 6 tracts In Parkside
Moderate
Within parent city
18 th percentile
Rank, 18th percentileLowHigh
#75 of 91 tracts In Buffalo
Very Low
Within county
71 th percentile
Rank, 71st percentileLowHigh
#75 of 260 tracts In Erie County
Elevated
Within state
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#2,390 of 5,394 tracts In New York
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Buffalo and the region

Centroid at 42.9293, -78.8607 · click any tract to drill in

Why Parkside scores 8.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Buffalo
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
New York legislature & governorship
7.3
Economic stress
14.4% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$687 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Buffalo
7.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Buffalo
7.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Buffalo
7.5

How Parkside compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Parkside risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.3This tracttract 0053007.9Buffaloparent city6.8Countyavg tract in county7.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 30

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Parkside. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Parkside

Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. Average gross rent is $687, 34% below the Buffalo average. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

It sits 1.5 points above the Erie County average of 6.8. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 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. On the national scale it lands near the 92nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $64,519, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

61% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 36029005300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 36029005300?

Census tract 36029005300 in the Parkside neighborhood scores 8.3/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 36029005300?

Median gross rent is $687/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 20% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 36029005300?

14.4% of residents in tract 36029005300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,658.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 36029005300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 30th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 31th, household 3th, minority 57th, housing 72th.
Q5

Is tract 36029005300 considered part of Parkside?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 36029005300 fall within Parkside (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 36029005300 struggle to pay rent?

About 13.0% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 8.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 36029005300 compare to Buffalo overall?

Tract 36029005300 scores 8.3/10, higher than the parent city of Buffalo at 7.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Buffalo eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 36029005300 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Buffalo ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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