The Heights Eviction Risk: High , Jersey City

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $58,708, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 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. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Average gross rent is $1,605, 20% below the Jersey City average.

Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. The filing record is not thin: 362 evictions over 4 years of observation.

Against Hudson County at 46.5%, 42% of renters here are cost-burdened. The worst year on record was 2014, when 8.7% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 6.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 94% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.