Hopelawn Eviction Risk: High , Perth Amboy

It sits 3.6 points above the Middlesex County average of 5.7. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9/10.

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.1/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $47,660 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Food insecurity runs 31.5% against 17.8% nationally.

Average gross rent is $1,317, 22% below the Perth Amboy average. Housing insecurity runs 26.0% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The filing record is not thin: 48 evictions over 1 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2015 at 6.3% of renter households.

In a typical year about 6.3% of renter households face a filing.

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.