Allentown Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo
Tract 36029006801 · Erie County, NY · pop 1,341 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 36029006801 covers part of the Allentown area of Buffalo, NY, and scores 8.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,341 residents. 33% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Buffalo and the region
Centroid at 42.8976, -78.8728 · click any tract to drill in
Why Allentown scores 8.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Allentown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 18
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 26%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 56%Racial/ethnic minority
- 59%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 31%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 Allentown. 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.
- 11.3%Housing insecurity
- 7.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.4%Food insecurity
- 9.5%SNAP enrollment
- 7.1%Transit barriers
- 5.4%No health insurance
- 15.8%Frequent mental distress
- 18.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Allentown
77% 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. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8/10. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.
Disability prevalence runs 18.0% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Erie County average of 6.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.
Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. At $1,227 a month, rents run 17% over what the rest of Buffalo commands.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 #7,382 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.6/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 44% of renters.
Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $70,617.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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