Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #22,681 of 84,120 nationally
Garfield Park Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34003060002 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 6,823 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Tract 34003060002 sits in the Garfield Park area of Wood-Ridge, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.6/10. Population here is 6,823. Average gross rent is $2,470, 32% above the Wood-Ridge average.
Risk score
5.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 11%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 71%
Tract context
Occupied units2,339
Renter share28.7%
SVI overall0.10
Poverty rate8.3%
Median income$131,194
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
39
th percentile
Low
Within state
49
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Garfield and the region
Centroid at 40.8589, -74.0928 · click any tract to drill in
Why Garfield Park scores 5.6
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
8.3% poverty · this tract
2.1
Supply constraint
$2,470 rent vs county FMR
6.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Garfield
2.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Garfield
7.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Garfield
3.4
How Garfield Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 10
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 7%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 62%Racial/ethnic minority
- 39%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 36%Grade B
- 1%Grade C
- 1%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.
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.
- 9.5%Housing insecurity
- 5.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.6%Food insecurity
- 5.0%SNAP enrollment
- 5.5%Transit barriers
- 7.8%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 18.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Garfield Park
What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 7.9/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.1/10.
Against Bergen County at 46.6%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened. Disability prevalence runs 18.8% against 31.5% nationally.
The voucher gap is 19.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.4/10.
Food insecurity runs 9.6% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 0.7 points below the Bergen County average of 6.3.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. Nationally it ranks #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Social vulnerability reads 1.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $131,194. 29% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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 34003060002
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003060002?
Census tract 34003060002 in the Garfield Park neighborhood scores 5.6/10 (Moderate 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 34003060002?
Median gross rent is $2,470/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003060002?
8.3% of residents in tract 34003060002 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,823.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003060002?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 10th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 7th, household 4th, minority 62th, housing 39th.
Q5
Is tract 34003060002 considered part of Garfield Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34003060002 fall within Garfield Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
What share of households in tract 34003060002 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.5% 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. 5.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34003060002 compare to Garfield overall?
Tract 34003060002 scores 5.6/10, lower 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.
Q8
Was tract 34003060002 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 1% 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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