Southwest Ridgewood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hawthorne

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.1/10. It sits 2.2 points below the Passaic County average of 6.7. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10.

20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. SNAP participation runs 4.4% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 9.1% against 17.8% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 6.9/10.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. Nationally it ranks #41,206 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 2.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $159,358, annual rent is just 13%. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.5 points cooler.

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.