Ocean City Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34009020101 · Cape May County, NJ · pop 3,695 · 98% of tract blocks fall in Ocean City
Tract 34009020101, home to 3,695 residents in Ocean City in Cape May County, scores 6.3/10 for landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 83% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 50% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 36% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,816 a month while the average household earns $86,933 a year, roughly 25% of income at the averages. Renters make up 36% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Ocean City and the region
Centroid at 39.2818, -74.5675 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ocean City scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Ocean City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 34
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 19%Socioeconomic
- 33%Household composition
- 36%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%Housing & transportation
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)
- 243Total filings over 4 yrs
- 8.92%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.6%Peak (2018)
- 79Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 6.9%Housing insecurity
- 4.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.7%Food insecurity
- 4.4%SNAP enrollment
- 4.6%Transit barriers
- 6.5%No health insurance
- 13.1%Frequent mental distress
- 23.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Ocean City
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 6.4/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Ocean City, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Cape May County average of 6.0 and in line with the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 34th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 243 eviction filings here over 4 tracked years, with about 8.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 12.6% of renter households in 2018.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 34009020101
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Highest-risk tracts in Ocean City
Top eight tracts in Ocean City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.