Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally
Pleasantville Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34001012100 · Atlantic County, NJ · pop 2,860
34001012100 is a census tract in Pleasantville, NJ. It scores 8/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,860 residents. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10.
Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units943
Renter share50.9%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate17.8%
Median income$63,224
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
97
th percentile
Very High
Within state
82
th percentile
High
National
91
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Pleasantville and the region
Centroid at 39.3665, -74.5137 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pleasantville scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Pleasantville
5.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.3
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
17.8% poverty · this tract
4.5
Supply constraint
$1,201 rent vs county FMR
2.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Pleasantville
8.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Pleasantville
9.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Pleasantville
8.2
How Pleasantville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 81%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 50%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 230Total filings over 6 yrs
- 9.95%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.8%Peak (2017)
- 41Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 6 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 26.7%Housing insecurity
- 16.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.1%Food insecurity
- 24.4%SNAP enrollment
- 16.2%Transit barriers
- 25.5%No health insurance
- 18.0%Frequent mental distress
- 35.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Pleasantville
Against the Atlantic County average of 5.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10. The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.2/10. Housing insecurity runs 26.7% against 14.2% nationally. Against Atlantic County at 48.9%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 230 filings here across 6 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Average gross rent is $1,201, 11% below the Pleasantville average.
Filings peaked in 2017 at 12.8% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 9.9% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34001012100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34001012100?
Census tract 34001012100 in Pleasantville scores 8/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 34001012100?
Median gross rent is $1,201/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34001012100?
17.8% of residents in tract 34001012100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,860.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34001012100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 81th, minority 90th, housing 87th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34001012100?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 230 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 34001012100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.95% of renter households, peaking at 12.8% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34001012100 struggle to pay rent?
About 26.7% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 16.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34001012100 compare to Pleasantville overall?
Tract 34001012100 scores 8/10, higher than the parent city of Pleasantville at 7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Pleasantville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34001012100 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Pleasantville
Top eight tracts in Pleasantville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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