East Orange Eviction Risk: High

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

SNAP participation runs 26.9% against 15.2% nationally. Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 1,236 filings here across 6 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2016 at 30.9% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 29.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #5,413 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.