Little Ferry Eviction Risk: Elevated

Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.4/10. 66% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Against the Bergen County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. SNAP participation runs 6.7% against 15.2% nationally.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 551 filings here across 5 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 12.1% 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 9.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #8,653 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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