University Heights Eviction Risk: High , Newark

Cost burden runs 77% here against 50.3% across Essex County. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. Set annual rent against average income of $42,299 and the ratio lands at 43%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. SNAP participation runs 30.5% against 15.2% nationally. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 19.9% against 11.3% nationally. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 993 filings here across 6 tracked years.

At $1,526 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Newark commands. The worst year on record was 2015, when 33.5% of renter households were served.

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