Lakewood Eviction Risk: High

76% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Ocean County average of 50.5%. It sits 4.2 points above the Ocean County average of 5.0. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.4/10. Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $34,911, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 9.3/10.

At $1,212 a month, rents run 29% under what the rest of Lakewood commands. SNAP participation runs 28.0% against 15.2% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 21.2% against 14.2% nationally.

That is riskier than roughly 96% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 6.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 3.2 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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