Linden Eviction Risk: Elevated

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. about half of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Union County average of 44.6%.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 333 filings here across 4 tracked years. At $1,549 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Linden commands. Filings peaked in 2013 at 15.6% of renter households.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 10.6% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #15,451 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 6.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the Union County average of 6.6 closely.

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