Academy Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Newark

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.7 points.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.8/10.

The severe-burden share is 13%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. SNAP participation runs 4.7% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 8.7% against 17.8% nationally.

Court records carry 104 eviction filings across 6 observed years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 14.1% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 11.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 8% of average household income of $227,917, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.