The Shades Eviction Risk: Elevated , Union City

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.3/10. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Food insecurity runs 32.1% against 17.8% nationally. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.1/10. Housing insecurity runs 25.2% against 14.2% nationally.

On the high side, local political climate reads 7.6/10. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against Hudson County at 46.5%, 51% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 565 filings here across 4 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 20.0% 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 12.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 8.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.