Teachers Village Eviction Risk: High , Newark

It sits 2.6 points above the Essex County average of 7.3. Food insecurity runs 39.6% against 17.8% nationally. 88% 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.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. SNAP participation runs 33.9% against 15.2% nationally. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. At $973 a month, rents run 30% under what the rest of Newark commands. Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 1,720 filings here across 6 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2018, when 29.2% of renter households were served. 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 25.6% of renter households face a filing.

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