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Central Waterfront Eviction Risk: High , Camden

Tract 34007610300 · Camden County, NJ · pop 2,274 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Tract 34007610300 sits in the Central Waterfront area of Camden eviction risk, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.8/10. It sits 3.1 points above the Camden County average of 5.7.

Risk score
8.8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 41% Stable renters 42% Owners 17%
Tract context
Occupied units1,066
Renter share83.2%
SVI overall0.83
Poverty rate40.2%
Median income$46,500

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Central Waterfront
Moderate
Within parent city
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 19 tracts In Camden
Elevated
Within county
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 129 tracts In Camden County
Very High
Within state
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#210 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Camden and the region

Centroid at 39.9406, -75.1304 · click any tract to drill in

Why Central Waterfront scores 8.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Camden
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.7
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
40.2% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,630 rent vs county FMR
4.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Camden
7.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Camden
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Camden
7.0

How Central Waterfront compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Central Waterfront risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.8This tracttract 6103007.4Camdenparent city5.7Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 83

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 392Total filings over 6 yrs
  • 8.11%Avg annual filing rate
  • 10.8%Peak (2015)
  • 57Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34007610300
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 6 months.
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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Central Waterfront

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. 29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.4/10.

Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $46,500, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. This is renter territory: 83% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. At $1,630 a month, rents run 33% over what the rest of Camden commands.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 392 filings here across 6 tracked years. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7/10. SNAP participation runs 22.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

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 34007610300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34007610300?

Census tract 34007610300 in the Central Waterfront neighborhood scores 8.8/10 (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 34007610300?

Median gross rent is $1,630/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34007610300?

40.2% of residents in tract 34007610300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,274.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34007610300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 83th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 87th, household 58th, minority 71th, housing 76th.
Q5

Is tract 34007610300 considered part of Central Waterfront?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34007610300 fall within Central Waterfront (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34007610300?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 392 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 34007610300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.11% of renter households, peaking at 10.8% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 34007610300 struggle to pay rent?

About 22.1% 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. 14.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 34007610300 compare to Camden overall?

Tract 34007610300 scores 8.8/10, higher than the parent city of Camden at 7.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Camden eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 34007610300 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. 22% 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 Camden

Top eight tracts in Camden ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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