Within parent city
60
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #17,650 of 84,120 nationally
Bergenfield Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34003003100 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 5,400
With a score of 6.1/10, tract 34003003100 in Bergenfield, NJ reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.5/10.
Risk score
6.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 75%
Tract context
Occupied units1,958
Renter share25.5%
SVI overall0.43
Poverty rate6.1%
Median income$116,570
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
54
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
57
th percentile
Elevated
National
79
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Bergenfield and the region
Centroid at 40.9305, -73.9866 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bergenfield scores 6.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Bergenfield
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
6.1% poverty · this tract
1.5
Supply constraint
$1,423 rent vs county FMR
1.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Bergenfield
8.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Bergenfield
6.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Bergenfield
5.8
How Bergenfield compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 43
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 30%Socioeconomic
- 44%Household composition
- 81%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%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
- 2%Grade B
- 98%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)
- 77Total filings over 5 yrs
- 4.79%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.0%Peak (2013)
- 16Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 16% over the past 5 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.
- 10.5%Housing insecurity
- 5.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.5%Food insecurity
- 5.4%SNAP enrollment
- 5.9%Transit barriers
- 10.8%No health insurance
- 12.8%Frequent mental distress
- 20.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bergenfield
On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. 55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Bergen County average of 46.6%.
Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8/10. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
At $1,423 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Bergenfield commands. SNAP participation runs 5.4% against 15.2% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 77 evictions over 5 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2013 at 6.0% 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 4.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 79th 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.
Frequently asked
About tract 34003003100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003003100?
Census tract 34003003100 in Bergenfield scores 6.1/10 (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 34003003100?
Median gross rent is $1,423/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003003100?
6.1% of residents in tract 34003003100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,400.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003003100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 43th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 30th, household 44th, minority 81th, housing 46th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003003100?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 77 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003003100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.79% of renter households, peaking at 6.0% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34003003100 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.5% 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. 5.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34003003100 compare to Bergenfield overall?
Tract 34003003100 scores 6.1/10, right in line with the parent city of Bergenfield at 6.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Bergenfield eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34003003100 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 Bergenfield
Top eight tracts in Bergenfield ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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