Plainfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Adults with no health insurance runs 28.1% against 11.3% nationally. Food insecurity runs 31.3% against 17.8% nationally.

Against the Union County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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.

Nationally it ranks #8,653 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 48% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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