University Heights Eviction Risk: High , Newark

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. It sits 2.5 points above the Essex County average of 7.3.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. Housing insecurity runs 31.6% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 5,459 filings here across 6 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2013 at 60.0% 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. In a typical year about 52.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 97th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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