Witherspoon-Jackson Eviction Risk: Elevated , Princeton

58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Mercer County average of 46.5%. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

SNAP participation runs 4.3% against 15.2% nationally. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.4/10.

Food insecurity runs 8.5% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 275 evictions over 6 years of observation. The voucher gap is 13.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

At $2,295 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Princeton commands. It sits 0.7 points above the Mercer County average of 5.7. Filings peaked in 2016 at 3.5% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.