This Buffalo Brief provides an overview of the geography and statistics around poverty in Niagara County.
Like many places in the nation’s manufacturing belt, the Buffalo-Niagara metropolitan area has been losing population over the past several decades. This decline reflects the long-term shift of population from the Northeast and Midwest to warmer places in the South and West, as well as the considerable loss of manufacturing jobs in the region. Population loss has been especially severe in the Buffalo area, however, mostly due to its obvious weather disadvantages and an economy …