University Heights Eviction Risk: High , Newark

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points.

Food insecurity runs 38.7% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. SNAP participation runs 33.7% against 15.2% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $59,583, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 30%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. At $1,729 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of Newark commands. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 624 filings here across 6 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 32.3% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.

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