East Ferry Eviction Risk: High , Newark

It sits 2.6 points above the Essex County average of 7.3. Food insecurity runs 39.8% against 17.8% nationally. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

This is renter territory: 83% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The filing record is not thin: 1,318 evictions over 6 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2018 at 43.3% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Essex 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 29.1% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.