Waretown Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. At $1,176 a month, rents run 33% under what the rest of Waretown commands.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.7/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2/10.

Food insecurity runs 6.7% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 0.9 points below the Ocean County average of 5.0. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the national scale it lands near the 44th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $99,137, annual rent is just 14%. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.9 points cooler.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.