Newark Eviction Risk: High

31% 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 37.9% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $41,525, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.1/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Cost burden runs 44% here against 50.3% across Essex County. Court records carry 1,335 eviction filings across 6 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2017 at 28.1% of renter households.

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