Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Rutherford Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34003051400 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 4,909
Tract 34003051400 sits in Rutherford, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.3/10. It is home to 4,909 residents. Against Bergen County at 46.6%, 12% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 2%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 80%
Tract context
Occupied units1,674
Renter share20.2%
SVI overall0.14
Poverty rate1.8%
Median income$161,741
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
26
th percentile
Low
Within state
43
th percentile
Moderate
National
67
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Rutherford and the region
Centroid at 40.8091, -74.0997 · click any tract to drill in
Why Rutherford scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Rutherford
7.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
1.8% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,175 rent vs county FMR
5.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Rutherford
3.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Rutherford
7.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Rutherford
3.2
How Rutherford compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 14
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 10%Socioeconomic
- 45%Household composition
- 66%Racial/ethnic minority
- 10%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
- 24%Grade B
- 8%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)
- 62Total filings over 5 yrs
- 2.47%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.3%Peak (2018)
- 16Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 78% 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.
- 8.0%Housing insecurity
- 4.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.9%Food insecurity
- 3.9%SNAP enrollment
- 4.7%Transit barriers
- 7.5%No health insurance
- 13.6%Frequent mental distress
- 18.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Rutherford
Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.
Disability prevalence runs 18.5% against 31.5% nationally. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.7/10.
Food insecurity runs 7.9% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 1.0 points below the Bergen County average of 6.3. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 62 filings here across 5 tracked years.
Average gross rent is $2,175, 11% above the Rutherford average. Filings peaked in 2018 at 3.3% of renter households.
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. In a typical year about 2.5% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 20% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34003051400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003051400?
Census tract 34003051400 in Rutherford scores 5.3/10 (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 34003051400?
Median gross rent is $2,175/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 12% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003051400?
1.8% of residents in tract 34003051400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,909.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003051400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 14th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 10th, household 45th, minority 66th, housing 10th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003051400?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 62 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003051400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.47% of renter households, peaking at 3.3% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34003051400 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.0% 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. 4.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34003051400 compare to Rutherford overall?
Tract 34003051400 scores 5.3/10, lower than the parent city of Rutherford at 6.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Rutherford; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34003051400 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. 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 Rutherford
Top eight tracts in Rutherford ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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