Ducktown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Atlantic City

Food insecurity runs 46.8% against 17.8% nationally. The severe-burden share is 32%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 44%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against Atlantic County at 48.9%, 63% of renters here are cost-burdened. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10. It sits 2.3 points above the Atlantic County average of 5.5.

Set annual rent against average income of $41,228 and the ratio lands at 39%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

At $1,340 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Atlantic City commands. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.8/10.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 752 filings here across 6 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 27.1% of renter households were served.

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