Downtown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Hoboken

79% 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. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.8% against 31.5% nationally. The voucher gap is 19.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 132 filings here across 4 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 9.6% against 17.8% nationally.

Filings peaked in 2017 at 3.6% of renter households. 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 2.7% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 86% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

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