Raritan Gardens Eviction Risk: High , New Brunswick

35% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.9/10.

88% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9/10.

Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $56,060, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Middlesex County average of 44.9%. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.7/10. The filing record is not thin: 290 evictions over 1 years of observation.

Food insecurity runs 25.4% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 27.2% of renter households were served. Average gross rent is $1,655, 9% below the New Brunswick average.

In a typical year about 27.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #2,339 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.