Koreatown Eviction Risk: High , Fort Lee
Tract 34003041200 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 4,851 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
34003041200 is a census tract in the Koreatown area of Palisades Park, NJ. It scores 8/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,851 residents. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Lee and the region
Centroid at 40.8483, -73.9931 · click any tract to drill in
Why Koreatown scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Koreatown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 66
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 61%Socioeconomic
- 36%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 69%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
- 99%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)
- 257Total filings over 5 yrs
- 5.00%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.1%Peak (2014)
- 29Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Koreatown. 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.
- 9.6%Housing insecurity
- 4.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.9%Food insecurity
- 5.5%SNAP enrollment
- 5.9%Transit barriers
- 9.7%No health insurance
- 11.6%Frequent mental distress
- 18.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Koreatown
26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 1.7 points above the Bergen County average of 6.3.
This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. Disability prevalence runs 18.7% against 31.5% nationally.
SNAP participation runs 5.5% against 15.2% nationally. Running cool, economic stress reads 2.6/10.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 257 filings here across 5 tracked years. At $2,233 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Palisades Park commands. Filings peaked in 2014 at 7.1% 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 5.0% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
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.
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