University Heights Eviction Risk: High , Newark

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 34.1% against 11.3% nationally.

Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

79% 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. The poverty rate is 32%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.2/10.

Against Essex County at 50.3%, 59% of renters here are cost-burdened. SNAP participation runs 26.9% against 15.2% nationally.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 598 filings here across 6 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 22.1% 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. In a typical year about 18.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 9.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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