Newark Eviction Risk: High

32% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 2.6 points above the Essex County average of 7.3. Annualized rent equals 43% of average household income of $36,813, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 9/10.

68% 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. Housing insecurity runs 28.9% against 14.2% nationally. 58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Essex County average of 50.3%.

SNAP participation runs 24.5% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 2,203 filings here across 6 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2018 at 38.4% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 26.9% of renter households face a filing.

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

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