Buffalo, NY

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Climate

July average high

80°F

January average low

19°F

Annual rainfall

40.7 in

Annual snowfall

95.4 in

NOAA 1991–2020 normals from Buffalo (12 km from the city center). Bars show average low to high temperature; the blue column is average rainfall.

Trends

Survey and county figures by year. Dollar values are not adjusted for inflation.

How Buffalo ranks

• #1 Lowest Student-Teacher Ratios of 96 cities · score 100.0
• #7 Best Cities for Car-Free Commuting of 100 cities · score 82.8
• #30 Best Cities for Park Access of 99 cities · score 63.2
• #36 Best Cities Overall of 100 cities · score 55.5
• #43 Cities with the Cleanest Air of 95 cities · score 55.6
• #58 Most Affordable Cities of 100 cities · score 46.7
• #83 Healthiest Cities of 96 cities · score 26.9
• #87 Best-Connected Cities of 100 cities · score 13.3

Local facts

Median household income

$48,050

Median rent

$989 / mo

Median home value

$152,300

Median age

34.3

Unemployment

7.2%

Bachelor's degree or higher

30.3%

Poverty rate

27.4%

Renter-occupied homes

57.3%

Public schools

Public schools located in the city, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Staffing figures describe resources, not school quality.

Public schools

87

Students enrolled

45,090

Students per teacher

10.3 : 1

Free or reduced-price lunch

79.7%

Charter schools

24.1%

School districts serving the city

23

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Districts: Buffalo City School District, Kenmore-Tonawanda Union Free School District, Charter School For Applied Technologies, King Center Charter School, South Buffalo Charter School

Health & wellbeing

CDC PLACES model-based estimates for adults (age-adjusted), not a count of diagnoses.

Adults with obesity

39.1%

No leisure-time physical activity

32.7%

Adults with diabetes

13.6%

Adults who smoke

17.1%

Frequent mental distress

18.8%

Sleeping under 7 hours

44.0%

Adults without health insurance

9.5%

Routine checkup in past year

82.1%

Parks, air & walkability

Residents within a 10-minute walk of a park

90.6%

Share of city that is parkland

8.8%

EPA walkability index (1-20)

13.7

Median air quality index (county)

44

Unhealthy air days (county)

11

Internet & commuting

Households with broadband

86.7%

Households with no internet

9.9%

Average commute

19.9 min

Work from home

9.6%

Commute by transit

8.5%

Commute on foot

4.7%

Commute by bike

0.6%

Natural hazard risk

FEMA rates Erie County as relatively high overall for natural hazard risk, with 6 federally declared disasters in the past ten years.

• Cold wave: very high
• Winter weather: very high
• Riverine flooding: relatively high
• Tornado: relatively high

ZIP codes

• 14201
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