Linden Eviction Risk: High

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.9/10. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

It sits 1.4 points above the Union County average of 6.6. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.2/10. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Food insecurity runs 28.5% against 17.8% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 23.5% against 14.2% nationally.

Court records carry 243 eviction filings across 4 observed years. At $1,534 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Linden commands. The worst year on record was 2013, when 8.7% of renter households were served.

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.

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