Within neighborhood
92
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #4,622 of 84,120 nationally
Garfield Park Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34003057101 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 4,187 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 8.8/10, tract 34003057101 in the Garfield Park area of Wallington, NJ reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,187. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10.
Risk score
8.8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32%
Stable renters 48%
Owners 20%
Tract context
Occupied units1,951
Renter share80.1%
SVI overall0.68
Poverty rate11.8%
Median income$77,464
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
99
th percentile
Very High
Within state
90
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Garfield and the region
Centroid at 40.8568, -74.0990 · click any tract to drill in
Why Garfield Park scores 8.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Garfield
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
11.8% poverty · this tract
2.9
Supply constraint
$1,420 rent vs county FMR
1.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Garfield
5.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Garfield
9.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Garfield
5.7
How Garfield Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 68
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 68%Socioeconomic
- 50%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%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
- 55%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)
- 321Total filings over 5 yrs
- 4.44%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.0%Peak (2014)
- 45Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 36% over the past 5 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Garfield Park. 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
- 6.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.9%Food insecurity
- 7.5%SNAP enrollment
- 6.9%Transit barriers
- 10.3%No health insurance
- 16.0%Frequent mental distress
- 23.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Garfield Park
It sits 2.5 points above the Bergen County average of 6.3. This is renter territory: 80% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.9/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. 40% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Bergen County average of 46.6%. The filing record is not thin: 321 evictions over 5 years of observation.
SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,420, 13% below the Wallington average.
The worst year on record was 2014, when 6.0% 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 4.4% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #4,622 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.1/10.
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 34003057101
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003057101?
Census tract 34003057101 in the Garfield Park neighborhood scores 8.8/10 (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 34003057101?
Median gross rent is $1,420/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003057101?
11.8% of residents in tract 34003057101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,187.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003057101?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 68th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 68th, household 50th, minority 59th, housing 66th.
Q5
Is tract 34003057101 considered part of Garfield Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34003057101 fall within Garfield Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003057101?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 321 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003057101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.44% of renter households, peaking at 6.0% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34003057101 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. 6.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34003057101 compare to Garfield overall?
Tract 34003057101 scores 8.8/10, higher than the parent city of Garfield at 7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Garfield eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 34003057101 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. 55% 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 Garfield
Top eight tracts in Garfield ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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