Plainfield Eviction Risk: High

Cost burden runs 59% here against 44.6% across Union County. The severe-burden share is 28%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.

Against the Union County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. Housing insecurity runs 30.9% against 14.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10.

SNAP participation runs 24.1% against 15.2% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

Nationally it ranks #5,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 2.6 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,858, close to the Plainfield average.

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.