Downtown Jersey City Eviction Risk: Elevated

Average gross rent is $3,255, 62% above the Jersey City average. The voucher gap is 41.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

The dominant input is supply constraint at 9.2/10. Disability prevalence runs 11.5% against 31.5% nationally. This is renter territory: 85% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. Food insecurity runs 5.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 1.1 points below the Hudson County average of 7.7. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 102 filings here across 4 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 3.1% of renter households were served. 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.

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