Within parent city
64
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #6,330 of 84,120 nationally
Hackensack Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34003023601 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 3,320
With a score of 8.3/10, tract 34003023601 in Hackensack, NJ reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,320. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.
Risk score
8.3
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23%
Stable renters 32%
Owners 45%
Tract context
Occupied units1,353
Renter share54.7%
SVI overall0.82
Poverty rate11.2%
Median income$85,518
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
92
th percentile
Very High
Within state
85
th percentile
High
National
93
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Hackensack and the region
Centroid at 40.8660, -74.0382 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hackensack scores 8.3
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
11.2% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$1,646 rent vs county FMR
2.9
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: 82
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 61%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 80%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
- 74%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)
- 408Total filings over 5 yrs
- 9.12%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.7%Peak (2013)
- 82Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 18% 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.
- 20.8%Housing insecurity
- 11.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.6%Food insecurity
- 15.0%SNAP enrollment
- 11.5%Transit barriers
- 21.4%No health insurance
- 16.9%Frequent mental distress
- 29.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Hackensack
Against the Bergen County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.4% against 11.3% nationally.
42% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Bergen County average of 46.6%. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.8/10.
The filing record is not thin: 408 evictions over 5 years of observation. At $1,646 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Hackensack commands.
The worst year on record was 2013, when 10.7% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Bergen Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 9.1% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 92% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34003023601
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003023601?
Census tract 34003023601 in Hackensack scores 8.3/10 (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 34003023601?
Median gross rent is $1,646/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 42% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003023601?
11.2% of residents in tract 34003023601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,320.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003023601?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 82th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 79th, household 61th, minority 83th, housing 80th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003023601?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 408 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003023601 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.12% of renter households, peaking at 10.7% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34003023601 struggle to pay rent?
About 20.8% 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. 11.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34003023601 compare to Hackensack overall?
Tract 34003023601 scores 8.3/10, 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 34003023601 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. 74% 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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34003023501
8.6
/ 10 · High
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34003023502
8.6
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
34003023602
8.6
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
Manordome
8.2
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
34003023401
8.2
/ 10 · High
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34003023303
8.1
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
Manordome
8
/ 10 · High
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