University Heights Eviction Risk: High , Newark

SNAP participation runs 46.4% against 15.2% nationally. The dominant input is 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. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

At $1,088 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Newark commands. The filing record is not thin: 930 evictions over 6 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2013 at 45.7% 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.