Colonia Eviction Risk: Moderate , Rahway

At $3,054 a month, rents run 66% over what the rest of Rahway commands. The voucher gap is 42.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 9.3/10.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10. It sits 1.0 points below the Union County average of 6.6.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 15 filings here across 4 tracked years. SNAP participation runs 6.8% against 15.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2017, when 12.5% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 4.7% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 8% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 2.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.