Southeast Ridgewood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Paramus

64% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Bergen County average of 46.6%. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.8/10. The voucher gap is 27.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. SNAP participation runs 3.4% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 17 filings here across 5 tracked years.

At $2,639 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Paramus commands. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Filings peaked in 2014 at 2.3% 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 1.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.