Within county
29
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally
Tract 34013013700 Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34013013700 · Essex County, NJ · pop 4,520
Census tract 34013013700 covers part of Essex County, NJ, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,520. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10.
Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21%
Stable renters 37%
Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units2,078
Renter share58.7%
SVI overall0.58
Poverty rate9.4%
Median income$96,141
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within state
38
th percentile
Low
National
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Essex County and the region
Centroid at 40.8126, -74.1575 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 34013013700 scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
State baseline
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
9.4% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$1,671 rent vs county FMR
2.8
Rent control risk
State baseline
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
State baseline
4.0
Housing court bias
State baseline
5.0
How Tract 34013013700 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 62%Socioeconomic
- 37%Household composition
- 58%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 12%Grade B
- 59%Grade C
- 29%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)
- 347Total filings over 6 yrs
- 4.93%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.1%Peak (2014)
- 34Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 44% over the past 6 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.
- 12.0%Housing insecurity
- 6.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.9%Food insecurity
- 8.0%SNAP enrollment
- 7.1%Transit barriers
- 12.8%No health insurance
- 15.1%Frequent mental distress
- 24.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tract 34013013700
Cost burden runs 36% here against 50.3% across Essex County. Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.2 points.
Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.8/10. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Running cool, economic stress reads 2.3/10. The filing record is not thin: 347 evictions over 6 years of observation. SNAP participation runs 8.0% against 15.2% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 6.1% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Essex Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 4.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34013013700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34013013700?
Census tract 34013013700 in Essex County scores 5.1/10 (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 34013013700?
Median gross rent is $1,671/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34013013700?
9.4% of residents in tract 34013013700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,520.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34013013700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 58th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 62th, household 37th, minority 58th, housing 57th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34013013700?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 347 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 34013013700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.93% of renter households, peaking at 6.1% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34013013700 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.0% 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. 6.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
Was tract 34013013700 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 29% 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.
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