Newark Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34013009400 · Essex County, NJ · pop 5,810
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 34013009400 (Newark, New Jersey) comes in at 8.4/10, the High tier. That ranks it in the top 1% of US census tracts for landlord eviction risk, among the very hardest places in the country to operate.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 56% of renter households, a severe level, and 37% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,446 a month while the average household earns $32,205 a year, roughly 54% of income at the averages. About 71% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Newark and the region
Centroid at 40.7665, -74.1730 · click any tract to drill in
Why Newark scores 9.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Newark compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%Housing & transportation
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
- 61%Grade B
- 39%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.
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)
- 2,508Total filings over 6 yrs
- 22.37%Avg annual filing rate
- 27.3%Peak (2014)
- 325Filings 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.
- 31.9%Housing insecurity
- 19.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 41.7%Food insecurity
- 32.0%SNAP enrollment
- 19.5%Transit barriers
- 31.1%No health insurance
- 19.0%Frequent mental distress
- 37.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Newark
What moves this score most is rent-control risk at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Newark eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Essex County average of 7.3 and above the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 2,508 eviction filings here over 6 tracked years, with about 22.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 27.3% of renter households in 2014.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of B ("Still Desirable"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
For a landlord underwriting a deal here, treat timelines and legal costs as the real risk: Newark eviction risk sits in territory where contested cases drag and tenant defenses are well organized, so airtight notices and screening matter more than usual.
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Highest-risk tracts in Newark
Top eight tracts in Newark ranked by composite eviction-risk score.