Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #5,153 of 84,120 nationally
Hackensack Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34003023501 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 3,587
34003023501 is a census tract in Hackensack, NJ. It scores 8.6/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,587 residents. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.
Risk score
8.6
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 25%
Stable renters 31%
Owners 44%
Tract context
Occupied units1,353
Renter share56.4%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate19.6%
Median income$67,669
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
97
th percentile
Very High
Within state
88
th percentile
High
National
94
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Hackensack and the region
Centroid at 40.8897, -74.0472 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hackensack scores 8.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Hackensack
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
19.6% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$1,652 rent vs county FMR
3.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Hackensack
6.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Hackensack
9.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Hackensack
6.1
How Hackensack compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 77%Socioeconomic
- 43%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 100%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
- 8%Grade B
- 36%Grade C
- 56%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)
- 925Total filings over 5 yrs
- 20.64%Avg annual filing rate
- 27.0%Peak (2013)
- 127Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 48% 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.
- 22.0%Housing insecurity
- 12.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 25.2%Food insecurity
- 16.7%SNAP enrollment
- 12.1%Transit barriers
- 18.6%No health insurance
- 16.7%Frequent mental distress
- 28.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Hackensack
It sits 2.3 points above the Bergen County average of 6.3. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
The filing record is not thin: 925 evictions over 5 years of observation. Housing insecurity runs 22.0% against 14.2% nationally.
At $1,652 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Hackensack commands. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 3/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 18.6% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2013, when 27.0% 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 20.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #5,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
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 34003023501
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003023501?
Census tract 34003023501 in Hackensack scores 8.6/10 (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 34003023501?
Median gross rent is $1,652/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003023501?
19.6% of residents in tract 34003023501 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,587.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003023501?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 77th, household 43th, minority 80th, housing 100th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003023501?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 925 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003023501 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 20.64% of renter households, peaking at 27.0% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34003023501 struggle to pay rent?
About 22.0% 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. 12.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34003023501 compare to Hackensack overall?
Tract 34003023501 scores 8.6/10, higher than the parent city of Hackensack at 7.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Hackensack eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34003023501 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. 56% 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 Hackensack
Top eight tracts in Hackensack ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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34003023402
8.6
/ 10 · High
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34003023502
8.6
/ 10 · High
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34003023602
8.6
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
34003023601
8.3
/ 10 · High
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34003023401
8.2
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
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8.2
/ 10 · High
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34003023303
8.1
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
Manordome
8
/ 10 · High
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