Hillcrest Eviction Risk: Elevated , Trenton

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.2/10. Cost burden runs 37% here against 46.5% across Mercer County.

15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 372 filings here across 6 tracked years. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7/10.

Filings peaked in 2018 at 13.1% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 10.8% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. It tracks the Mercer County average of 5.7 closely.

Average gross rent runs $1,260 a month. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $74,025.

46% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.