Elmwood Village Eviction Risk: Elevated , Buffalo
Tract 36029006302 · Erie County, NY · pop 2,404 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 36029006302 sits in the Elmwood Village area of Buffalo eviction risk, NY, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.2/10. Population here is 2,404. The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Buffalo and the region
Centroid at 42.9270, -78.8725 · click any tract to drill in
Why Elmwood Village scores 7.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Elmwood Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 14
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 26%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 23%Racial/ethnic minority
- 28%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 42%Grade A
- 34%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Elmwood Village. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.1%Housing insecurity
- 5.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.9%Food insecurity
- 6.4%SNAP enrollment
- 5.4%Transit barriers
- 4.1%No health insurance
- 14.9%Frequent mental distress
- 18.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Elmwood Village
The dominant input is local political climate at 8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. Disability prevalence runs 18.6% against 31.5% nationally.
Average gross rent is $1,257, 20% above the Buffalo average. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.3/10. Cost burden runs 39% here against 44.6% across Erie County.
Adults with no health insurance runs 4.1% against 11.3% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 #11,988 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 2.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $92,000, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Erie County average of 6.8 closely. 44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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