Seneca Babcock Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo

It sits 2.5 points above the Erie County average of 6.8. SNAP participation runs 35.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Set annual rent against average income of $33,618 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8/10.

On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Housing insecurity runs 24.4% against 14.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

Average gross rent is $949, 9% below the Buffalo average. 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 #3,082 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

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