Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #11,988 of 84,120 nationally
Carlstadt Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34003005000 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 6,341
Census tract 34003005000 covers part of Carlstadt, NJ, and scores 7.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 6,341. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units2,639
Renter share39.0%
SVI overall0.21
Poverty rate10.5%
Median income$94,854
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
71
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
73
th percentile
Elevated
National
86
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Carlstadt and the region
Centroid at 40.8264, -74.0623 · click any tract to drill in
Why Carlstadt scores 7.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Carlstadt
7.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
10.5% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,503 rent vs county FMR
2.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Carlstadt
6.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Carlstadt
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Carlstadt
5.7
How Carlstadt compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 21
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 39%Socioeconomic
- 18%Household composition
- 50%Racial/ethnic minority
- 13%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
- 15%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)
- 166Total filings over 5 yrs
- 3.35%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.0%Peak (2013)
- 26Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 37% 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.
- 11.9%Housing insecurity
- 6.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.9%Food insecurity
- 7.2%SNAP enrollment
- 6.8%Transit barriers
- 11.5%No health insurance
- 15.9%Frequent mental distress
- 24.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Carlstadt
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.3/10. It sits 0.9 points above the Bergen County average of 6.3.
Court records carry 166 eviction filings across 5 observed years. SNAP participation runs 7.2% against 15.2% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2013 at 4.0% of renter households. At $1,503 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Carlstadt commands.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Bergen Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 3.4% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 86% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34003005000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003005000?
Census tract 34003005000 in Carlstadt scores 7.2/10 (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 34003005000?
Median gross rent is $1,503/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003005000?
10.5% of residents in tract 34003005000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,341.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003005000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 21th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 39th, household 18th, minority 50th, housing 13th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003005000?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 166 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003005000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.35% of renter households, peaking at 4.0% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34003005000 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.9% 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. 6.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34003005000 compare to Carlstadt overall?
Tract 34003005000 scores 7.2/10, higher than the parent city of Carlstadt at 6.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Carlstadt; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34003005000 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.
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