Clifton Eviction Risk: Moderate

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.6/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.3/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 24.4% against 11.3% nationally.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 287 filings here across 5 tracked years. At $1,468 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Clifton commands. Housing insecurity runs 21.9% against 14.2% nationally.

It sits 0.8 points below the Passaic County average of 6.7. Filings peaked in 2015 at 5.1% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 4.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 77% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 46% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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