East Orange Eviction Risk: High

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10.

The severe-burden share is 30%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Cost burden runs 58% here against 50.3% across Essex County. Food insecurity runs 27.2% against 17.8% nationally.

The filing record is not thin: 594 evictions over 6 years of observation. It sits 0.9 points above the Essex County average of 7.3.

Housing insecurity runs 22.6% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2013 at 14.6% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 11.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 92nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, 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.