Ocean City Harbors Eviction Risk: Elevated

The severe-burden share is 32%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. The strongest single driver of the headline number is tenant-organizing strength at 9/10. The 2 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 6.4 to 7.8, a 1.4-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address.

At $1,131 a month, rents sit 18% under what the rest of Somers Point commands. Well under the midpoint is supply constraint, at 2.7/10.

Court records carry 450 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts. The worst year on record was 2014, when filings touched 20.9% of renter households.

The most recent observed rate, 11.1% in 2018, is well off that peak. The closest comparables inside the same city are Glyn Heath and Ocean Heights Manor. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $62,969.

34% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Underwrite the address, not the area: with 1.4 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.