Lakewood Eviction Risk: High

Cost burden runs about three-quarters here against 50.5% across Ocean County. It sits 4.2 points above the Ocean County average of 5.0.

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. On the high side, economic stress reads 9.7/10.

The poverty rate is 39%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Set annual rent against average income of $48,889 and the ratio lands at 41%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.4/10.

SNAP participation runs 30.8% against 15.2% nationally. This is renter territory: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Housing insecurity runs 27.9% against 14.2% nationally. Nationally it ranks #3,529 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.