Kearny Eviction Risk: Elevated

Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.2/10. Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.6 points. Against Hudson County at 46.5%, 41% of renters here are cost-burdened.

At $1,423 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Kearny commands. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 234 filings here across 4 tracked years. SNAP participation runs 8.1% against 15.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2018, when 10.4% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Hudson 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 9.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #17,650 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 5.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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.