Rutherford Eviction Risk: Elevated

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.7/10. 40% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Bergen County average of 46.6%. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.6/10.

12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. SNAP participation runs 5.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 21 filings here across 5 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 9.7% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2015 at 2.9% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 2.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 79th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 14% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $175,385, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.