Spring Lake Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated

The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.1/10. Food insecurity runs 6.4% against 17.8% nationally. 41% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Monmouth County average of 47.3%.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Nationally it ranks #16,571 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 12% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.4/10. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the Monmouth County average of 5.7 closely. Average gross rent is $1,767, close to the Spring Lake Heights average.

Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $117,500.

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.