Hackensack Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34003023402 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 6,054
For landlords sizing up Hackensack, census tract 34003023402 carries an elevated eviction-risk score of 6.6/10. It lands near the 89th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
58% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 28% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,560 monthly, set against $62,046 in average yearly household income, roughly 30% of income at the averages. About 59% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Hackensack and the region
Centroid at 40.8789, -74.0594 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hackensack scores 6.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Hackensack compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 68%Socioeconomic
- 45%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 91%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
- 26%Grade B
- 27%Grade C
- 18%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)
- 1,520Total filings over 5 yrs
- 18.87%Avg annual filing rate
- 20.4%Peak (2017)
- 273Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 16.4%Housing insecurity
- 8.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.9%Food insecurity
- 10.0%SNAP enrollment
- 8.8%Transit barriers
- 15.8%No health insurance
- 14.9%Frequent mental distress
- 25.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Hackensack
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 9.7/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Hackensack eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Bergen County average of 6.3 and in line with the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 18% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 1,520 eviction filings here over 5 tracked years, with about 18.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 20.4% of renter households in 2017.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 34003023402
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Highest-risk tracts in Hackensack
Top eight tracts in Hackensack ranked by composite eviction-risk score.