University Heights Eviction Risk: High , Newark

Average gross rent is $642, 54% below the Newark average. SNAP participation runs 59.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 59.3% against 17.8% nationally. Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 51%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

It sits 2.6 points above the Essex County average of 7.3. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. This is renter territory: 96% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 865 filings here across 6 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 35.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Essex Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 27.6% of renter households face a filing.

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