Belhaven Eviction Risk: Lower , Bargaintown
Tract 34001012502 · Atlantic County, NJ · pop 1,645 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 34001012502 covers the Belhaven neighborhood of Bargaintown in New Jersey. Home to 1,645 residents, it scores 5.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than about 68% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 24% of renter households, a moderate level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $2,310 a month against an average household income of $119,474 a year, roughly 23% of income at the averages. About 7% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Bargaintown and the region
Centroid at 39.3411, -74.5861 · click any tract to drill in
Why Belhaven scores 1.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Belhaven compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 11
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 20%Socioeconomic
- 75%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 1%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 42%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 27Total filings over 6 yrs
- 5.36%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.2%Peak (2018)
- 7Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Belhaven. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 7.2%Housing insecurity
- 4.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.9%Food insecurity
- 4.6%SNAP enrollment
- 4.9%Transit barriers
- 6.1%No health insurance
- 13.8%Frequent mental distress
- 22.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Belhaven
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 8.4/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Bargaintown, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Atlantic County average of 6.7 and below the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 11th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
In CDC survey modeling, about 7.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 4.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 34001012502
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Highest-risk tracts in Bargaintown
Top eight tracts in Bargaintown ranked by composite eviction-risk score.