South Lakewood Eviction Risk: Elevated

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.4/10.

On the high side, housing-court posture reads 9.3/10. At $2,167 a month, rents run 26% over what the rest of Lakewood commands. It sits 1.6 points above the Ocean County average of 5.0.

18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 19% 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. Social vulnerability reads 1.4/10 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 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $112,333.

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.