Five Points Eviction Risk: Elevated , Buffalo

At $1,343 a month, rents run 28% over what the rest of Buffalo commands. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.2/10. The voucher gap is 14.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Against the Erie County average of 6.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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. Nationally it ranks #10,320 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 42% of renters. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $78,889.

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.