East Ferry Eviction Risk: High , Newark

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

This is renter territory: 75% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Housing insecurity runs 30.1% against 14.2% nationally.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Essex County average of 7.3. At $1,646 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Newark commands.

SNAP participation runs 25.0% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 320 filings here across 6 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2017 at 10.5% 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 7.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #4,622 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.5/10.

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