Newark Eviction Risk: High

Average gross rent is $346, 75% below the Newark average. The poverty rate is 46%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10.

90% 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. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 29.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $12,500 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Adults with no health insurance runs 27.5% against 11.3% nationally. The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Court records carry 3,128 eviction filings across 6 observed years. Filings peaked in 2018 at 62.7% of renter households.

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.