New Brunswick Eviction Risk: High

Cost burden runs 69% here against 44.9% across Middlesex County. It sits 4.0 points above the Middlesex County average of 5.7. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

Annualized rent equals 51% of average household income of $46,964, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 50%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.9/10.

This is renter territory: 94% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9/10. SNAP participation runs 28.7% against 15.2% nationally.

Adults with no health insurance runs 24.1% against 11.3% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 79 evictions over 1 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,991, 10% above the New Brunswick average.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 5.4% of renter households were served.

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.