Plainfield Eviction Risk: High

Food insecurity runs 37.6% against 17.8% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 30.6% against 11.3% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. 77% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Union County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10. 50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Union County average of 44.6%. Court records carry 636 eviction filings across 4 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2013 at 20.8% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

In a typical year about 13.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 92% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.