The Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Jersey City

The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10.

67% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10. 15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The filing record is not thin: 261 evictions over 4 years of observation. At $1,788 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Jersey City commands. The worst year on record was 2014, when 6.6% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Hudson 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 6.5% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #9,433 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.6/10. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.

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.