Highland Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hopewell

The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 48% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Hopewell City average of 61.3%. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Food insecurity runs 34.3% against 17.8% nationally. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. At $929 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Hopewell commands. It sits 0.9 points above the Hopewell City average of 4.8.

Court records carry 2,228 eviction filings across 6 observed years. Filings peaked in 2013 at 57.8% of renter households.

In a typical year about 44.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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.