Newark Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is economic stress at 9.5/10. The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. At $671 a month, rents run 31% under what the rest of Newark commands.

SNAP participation runs 32.4% against 15.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Licking County average of 3.9.

45% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Licking County average of 37.9%. Court records carry 476 eviction filings across 12 observed years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2014 at 6.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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