Hilltop Eviction Risk: High , Jersey City

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

The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Average gross rent is $1,634, 19% below the Jersey City average. Against Hudson County at 46.5%, 42% of renters here are cost-burdened. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 96th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 3.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $71,394.

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