Avenel Eviction Risk: Elevated

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.4/10.

16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against Middlesex County at 44.9%, 51% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Court records carry 280 eviction filings across 1 observed years. It sits 0.8 points above the Middlesex County average of 5.7.

At $1,643 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Avenel commands. SNAP participation runs 8.2% against 15.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 24.4% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Union 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 24.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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