University Heights Eviction Risk: High , Newark

Against Essex County at 50.3%, 71% of renters here are cost-burdened. 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.

Average gross rent is $1,949, 40% above the Newark average. Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $55,341, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

The filing record is not thin: 138 evictions over 6 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2018, when 27.5% of renter households were served.

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. In a typical year about 17.8% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.