East Ferry Eviction Risk: High , Newark

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Set annual rent against average income of $62,349 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. 16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. At $1,672 a month, rents run 20% over what the rest of Newark commands. Food insecurity runs 26.3% against 17.8% nationally.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 107 filings here across 6 tracked years. Housing insecurity runs 22.4% against 14.2% nationally.

55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Essex County average of 50.3%. Filings peaked in 2014 at 3.3% of renter households.

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.