Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #11,988 of 84,120 nationally
Ridgefield Park Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34003046200 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 4,400
34003046200 is a census tract in Ridgefield Park, NJ. It scores 7.2/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,400 residents. Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units1,624
Renter share34.6%
SVI overall0.50
Poverty rate8.1%
Median income$102,636
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
70
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
73
th percentile
Elevated
National
86
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Ridgefield Park and the region
Centroid at 40.8634, -74.0262 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ridgefield Park scores 7.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Ridgefield Park
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
8.1% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,639 rent vs county FMR
2.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Ridgefield Park
6.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Ridgefield Park
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Ridgefield Park
6.4
How Ridgefield Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 50
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 55%Socioeconomic
- 34%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 40%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 1%Grade B
- 76%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 260Total filings over 5 yrs
- 13.01%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.8%Peak (2017)
- 38Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 25% 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.
- 13.8%Housing insecurity
- 7.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.6%Food insecurity
- 7.5%SNAP enrollment
- 7.4%Transit barriers
- 14.6%No health insurance
- 15.0%Frequent mental distress
- 23.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Ridgefield Park
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2/10.
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. Cost burden runs 41% here against 46.6% across Bergen County. It sits 0.9 points above the Bergen County average of 6.3.
Court records carry 260 eviction filings across 5 observed years. SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2017, when 15.8% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 13.0% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 86th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
Average gross rent is $1,639, close to the Ridgefield Park average.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34003046200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003046200?
Census tract 34003046200 in Ridgefield Park scores 7.2/10 (Elevated 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 34003046200?
Median gross rent is $1,639/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003046200?
8.1% of residents in tract 34003046200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,400.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003046200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 50th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 55th, household 34th, minority 72th, housing 40th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003046200?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 260 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003046200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 13.01% of renter households, peaking at 15.8% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34003046200 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.8% 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. 7.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34003046200 compare to Ridgefield Park overall?
Tract 34003046200 scores 7.2/10, higher than the parent city of Ridgefield Park at 6.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Ridgefield Park; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34003046200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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 Ridgefield Park
Top eight tracts in Ridgefield Park ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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