Westfield Eviction Risk: Lower

It sits 3.4 points below the Union County average of 6.6. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.

Disability prevalence runs 15.3% against 31.5% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 5.2% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 55 filings here across 4 tracked years.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.1/10. Filings peaked in 2018 at 15.8% 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 11.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #63,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 3% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 1.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $250,001, annual rent is just 11%.

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