McGinley Square Eviction Risk: High , Jersey City

The score leans hardest on rent-control risk at 8.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Jersey City eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Hudson County average of 7.0 and above the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

Part of this tract, about 19% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 339 eviction filings here over 4 tracked years, with about 9.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 9.9% of renter households in 2018.

For a landlord underwriting a deal here, treat timelines and legal costs as the real risk: Jersey City eviction risk sits in territory where contested cases drag and tenant defenses are well organized, so airtight notices and screening matter more than usual.