Madison Eviction Risk: Moderate

17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.5/10.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 23 filings here across 2 tracked years. Against Morris County at 40.8%, 45% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.1/10.

Housing insecurity runs 6.8% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2018, when 3.8% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 2.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 77th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 2.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $163,906, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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