Indian Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , Jersey City

What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10.

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. At $2,548 a month, rents run 27% over what the rest of Jersey City commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

Disability prevalence runs 19.0% against 31.5% nationally. The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Cost burden runs 42% here against 46.5% across Hudson County. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 214 filings here across 4 tracked years.

SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2018, when 13.0% 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 7.9% of renter households face a filing.

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