Elizabeth Eviction Risk: High

Against Union County at 44.6%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.9/10.

It sits 1.6 points above the Union County average of 6.6. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 2/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 23.0% against 11.3% nationally.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Union Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 92% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 8.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,488, close to the Elizabeth average.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $75,523. 57% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.