Kensington Eviction Risk: Elevated , Buffalo

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The score leans hardest on state political climate at 7.3/10.

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. Nationally it ranks #16,571 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 23% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. The legal-climate inputs (statute speed, court posture, rent-regulation exposure) come from Cheektowaga eviction risk as a whole. Only the economic and supply signals are measured inside this tract. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $74,609, annual rent is just 16%. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.4 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Erie County average of 6.8 closely. Average gross rent is $971, close to the Cheektowaga average.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.