Charleston Eviction Risk: High , Perth Amboy

Against Middlesex County at 44.9%, 64% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Middlesex County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 3.6 points. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.

This is renter territory: 89% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Average gross rent is $2,314, 37% above the Perth Amboy average. Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $69,604, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10.

Housing insecurity runs 26.4% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. That is riskier than roughly 96% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.8/10. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 3.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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