University Heights Eviction Risk: High , Newark

30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. SNAP participation runs 36.0% against 15.2% nationally.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.1 points.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. At $1,028 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Newark commands.

Adults with no health insurance runs 20.5% against 11.3% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 1,085 evictions over 6 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2018 at 37.3% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 33.3% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 97th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.