Linden Eviction Risk: Elevated

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.3/10.

Against Union County at 44.6%, roughly one in two of renters here are cost-burdened. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 212 filings here across 4 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2018, when 9.4% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 8.0% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 85% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Union County average of 6.6 closely.

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