Love Canal Eviction Risk: Moderate , Niagara Falls

23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.5 points below the Niagara County average of 6.4.

Cost burden runs 48% here against 40.9% across Niagara County. Food insecurity runs 8.4% against 17.8% nationally. On the high side, state political climate reads 7.3/10.

SNAP participation runs 7.0% against 15.2% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 59th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 4.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $79,674, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 2.8 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.