Morris Plains Eviction Risk: Moderate

The voucher gap is 32.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 8.2/10.

SNAP participation runs 3.1% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 5.8% against 17.8% nationally. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 16 filings here across 2 tracked years. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.1/10. Against Morris County at 40.8%, 45% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Filings peaked in 2017 at 6.5% of renter households. In a typical year about 6.5% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 2.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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.