Central West Eviction Risk: High , Trenton

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.3/10. Food insecurity runs 33.1% against 17.8% nationally.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.8/10. 56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Mercer County average of 46.5%. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 1,193 filings here across 6 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2015 at 41.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Trenton. 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 30.9% of renter households face a filing.

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.