East Orange Eviction Risk: High

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

This is renter territory: 75% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. 18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Court records carry 2,219 eviction filings across 6 observed years.

At $1,233 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of East Orange commands. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. SNAP participation runs 22.7% against 15.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 37.6% of renter households were served. 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 35.2% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #5,730 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.