Koreatown Eviction Risk: High , Fort Lee

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. It sits 1.9 points above the Bergen County average of 6.3. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.1/10. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 471 filings here across 5 tracked years.

At $1,475 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Ridgefield Park commands. Filings peaked in 2015 at 12.4% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Bergen Co. 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 10.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 92% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $99,653, annual rent is just 18%.

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