Upper West Side Eviction Risk: High , Buffalo

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.7/10. It sits 2.5 points above the Erie County average of 6.8. 28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $33,010, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

This is renter territory: 76% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Housing insecurity runs 29.1% against 14.2% nationally.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Erie County average of 44.6%. 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.

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.