Teachers Village Eviction Risk: High , Newark

Food insecurity runs 53.7% against 17.8% nationally. Annualized rent equals 50% of average household income of $21,756, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 53%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 31.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

This is renter territory: 87% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

At $898 a month, rents run 35% under what the rest of Newark commands. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 542 filings here across 6 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 17.2% of renter households were served. 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 16.0% of renter households face a filing.

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