Cranford Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $994 a month, rents run 60% under what the rest of Cranford commands. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 17.5% against 31.5% nationally. Food insecurity runs 5.0% against 17.8% nationally.

It sits 1.1 points below the Union County average of 6.6. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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.

Nationally it ranks #23,808 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 4% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 5% of average household income of $247,228, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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