Kean University Eviction Risk: Elevated

Cost burden runs 58% here against 44.6% across Union County. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.9/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.4/10.

The filing record is not thin: 111 evictions over 4 years of observation. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.1/10.

At $1,887 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Kean University commands. The worst year on record was 2013, when 9.0% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Union Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 7.1% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 80th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.