Townsend Eviction Risk: Elevated

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 33% here against 43.0% across Middlesex County.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.8/10. Average gross rent is $1,063, 16% above the Townsend average.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 40 filings here across 5 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally.

Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 3.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.2% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #17,650 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 25% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $107,604, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.