Koreatown Eviction Risk: High , Fort Lee

32% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $78,151, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10.

The voucher gap is 26.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. It sits 1.7 points above the Bergen County average of 6.3. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.1/10. SNAP participation runs 6.6% against 15.2% nationally. At $2,621 a month, rents run 15% over what the rest of Fort Lee commands.

Court records carry 270 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Filings peaked in 2018 at 6.6% of renter households. 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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.