East Orange Eviction Risk: High

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. 73% 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.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.3/10. Food insecurity runs 32.1% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.

The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. SNAP participation runs 26.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 1,879 filings here across 6 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 42.8% 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.

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.