Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #16,032 of 84,120 nationally
Ocean City Harbors Eviction Risk: Elevated , Somers Point
Tract 34001012802 · Atlantic County, NJ · pop 1,635 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
34001012802 is a census tract in the Ocean City Harbors area of Somers Point, NJ. It scores 6.4/10 for landlords. It is home to 1,635 residents. Severe burden reaches 43%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
6.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 12%
Owners 76%
Tract context
Occupied units795
Renter share24.5%
SVI overall0.24
Poverty rate7.9%
Median income$70,149
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
33
th percentile
Low
Within county
65
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
61
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Somers Point and the region
Centroid at 39.3080, -74.6109 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ocean City Harbors scores 6.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Somers Point
5.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.3
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
7.9% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,640 rent vs county FMR
4.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Somers Point
6.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Somers Point
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Somers Point
6.0
How Ocean City Harbors compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 24
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 69%Socioeconomic
- 9%Household composition
- 1%Racial/ethnic minority
- 14%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%Grade C
- 40%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)
- 100Total filings over 6 yrs
- 9.44%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.0%Peak (2013)
- 11Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 61% over the past 6 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Ocean City Harbors. 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.
- 8.3%Housing insecurity
- 5.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.4%Food insecurity
- 5.6%SNAP enrollment
- 5.7%Transit barriers
- 7.3%No health insurance
- 14.8%Frequent mental distress
- 25.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Ocean City Harbors
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2/10.
At $1,640 a month, rents run 19% over what the rest of Somers Point commands. SNAP participation runs 5.6% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 0.9 points above the Atlantic County average of 5.5.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 100 filings here across 6 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 9.4% against 17.8% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2013, when 11.0% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 9.4% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 81% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34001012802
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34001012802?
Census tract 34001012802 in the Ocean City Harbors neighborhood scores 6.4/10 (Elevated 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 34001012802?
Median gross rent is $1,640/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34001012802?
7.9% of residents in tract 34001012802 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,635.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34001012802?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 24th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 69th, household 9th, minority 1th, housing 14th.
Q5
Is tract 34001012802 considered part of Ocean City Harbors?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34001012802 fall within Ocean City Harbors (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34001012802?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 100 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 34001012802 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.44% of renter households, peaking at 11.0% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34001012802 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.3% 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. 5.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34001012802 compare to Somers Point overall?
Tract 34001012802 scores 6.4/10, right in line with the parent city of Somers Point at 6.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Somers Point; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 34001012802 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 40% 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 Somers Point
Top eight tracts in Somers Point ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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