Elmwood Village Eviction Risk: Elevated , Buffalo

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Erie County average of 6.8.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. Against Erie County at 44.6%, roughly one in two of renters here are cost-burdened.

At $1,152 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Buffalo commands. 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. On the national scale it lands near the 90th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 4.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $88,824, annual rent is just 16%.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 55% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.