Chelsea Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Atlantic City

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.3/10. Against the Atlantic County average of 5.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points.

Against Atlantic County at 48.9%, 61% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.

Running hot, economic stress reads 7.7/10. SNAP participation runs 24.1% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 516 filings here across 6 tracked years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2014 at 19.2% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Atlantic City. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 17.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.