Northeast Inlet Eviction Risk: Elevated , Atlantic City

The poverty rate is 48%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Food insecurity runs 41.0% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 37.9% against 15.2% nationally. 29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10.

It sits 2.3 points above the Atlantic County average of 5.5. Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $23,240, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Cost burden runs 60% here against 48.9% across Atlantic County. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. At $783 a month, rents run 31% under what the rest of Atlantic City commands.

This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Court records carry 1,398 eviction filings across 6 observed years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 21.6% 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.

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