Northeast · New York · pop 277K
Buffalo, NY
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in NY, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,077 — covering estimated essentials here (about $952 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,400 left over.
Tradeoff: reported crime rates are higher than most cities here, so research specific neighborhoods before deciding.
The Buffalo fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,677/mo
Typical rent
$1,120/mo
Home value ÷ income
3.8×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $950/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,120/mo
- Median home value
- $175,000
- Median household income
- $46,000
- Population
- 277,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.1%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.6%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 950
- Property crime rate
- 3,400
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 80°F
- Avg. winter low
- 19°F
- Sunny days / year
- 164
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈1/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈30/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈5/yr
- Annual rain
- 40"
- Annual snow
- 95"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+10
- Int'l airport
- ≈9 mi
- Walkability
- 68/100
- Disaster risk
- 22/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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