Menlo Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Iselin

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

SNAP participation runs 2.5% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 1.3 points below the Middlesex County average of 5.7.

50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Middlesex County average of 44.9%. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Nationally it ranks #42,813 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 8% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $223,424, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.6 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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.