Totowa Eviction Risk: Moderate

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.1/10. Against the Passaic County average of 6.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.0 points.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10. At $1,638 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Totowa commands.

SNAP participation runs 6.4% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 85 filings here across 5 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2018 at 6.2% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.4% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 55% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 25% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $113,378, annual rent is just 17%. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.3 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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