Newark Eviction Risk: High

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. It sits 2.6 points above the Essex County average of 7.3.

Cost burden runs 64% here against 50.3% across Essex County. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

This is renter territory: 80% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. SNAP participation runs 33.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $56,108, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The filing record is not thin: 859 evictions over 6 years of observation.

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.