Downtown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Hoboken

What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.6/10.

69% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Disability prevalence runs 16.6% against 31.5% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. Food insecurity runs 7.1% against 17.8% nationally.

The severe-burden share is 11%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. It sits 0.9 points below the Hudson County average of 7.7. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 240 filings here across 4 tracked years.

At $2,489 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Hoboken commands. The worst year on record was 2018, when 7.2% 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.

In a typical year about 5.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #13,812 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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