Plainfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Cost burden runs 59% here against 44.6% across Union County.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 363 filings here across 4 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 25.5% of renter households were served.

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 12.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Union County average of 6.6 closely. Average gross rent is $1,715, close to the Plainfield average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $103,289.

41% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.