University Heights Eviction Risk: High , Newark

27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

It sits 2.1 points above the Essex County average of 7.3. Food insecurity runs 35.1% against 17.8% nationally. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. SNAP participation runs 29.0% against 15.2% nationally. 56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Essex County average of 50.3%.

Court records carry 1,511 eviction filings across 6 observed years. Filings peaked in 2018 at 51.0% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 42.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #2,922 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.