Newark Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34013009600 · Essex County, NJ · pop 5,495
Census tract 34013009600 sits in Newark eviction risk in Essex County, New Jersey eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 8.4/10. 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.
58% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 32% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,331 a month against an average household income of $36,813 a year, roughly 43% of income at the averages. Renters make up 68% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Newark and the region
Centroid at 40.7728, -74.1585 · click any tract to drill in
Why Newark scores 9.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Newark compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 74%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade B
- 31%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)
- 2,203Total filings over 6 yrs
- 26.92%Avg annual filing rate
- 38.4%Peak (2018)
- 547Filings 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.
- 28.9%Housing insecurity
- 16.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.6%Food insecurity
- 24.5%SNAP enrollment
- 16.8%Transit barriers
- 26.4%No health insurance
- 18.2%Frequent mental distress
- 30.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Newark
The score leans hardest on economic stress at $1/10. 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 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 28.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 16.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 2,203 eviction filings here over 6 tracked years, with about 26.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 38.4% of renter households in 2018.
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.