University Heights Eviction Risk: High , Newark

Food insecurity runs 49.8% against 17.8% nationally. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

It sits 2.6 points above the Essex County average of 7.3. This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, economic stress reads 9/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 26.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Essex County average of 50.3%. Court records carry 2,081 eviction filings across 6 observed years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 48.3% 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. In a typical year about 35.9% of renter households face a filing.

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