Census Tract · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally
Tract 34013015200 Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34013015200 ·
Essex County, NJ · pop 4,334
With a score of 5.1/10, tract 34013015200 in Essex County, NJ reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. 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 26%Stable renters 34%Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units2,142
Renter share59.8%
SVI overall0.56
Poverty rate8.8%
Median income$93,095
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within county
29th percentile
#150 of 211 tracts In Essex County
Low
Within state
38th percentile
#1,350 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Low
National
63th percentile
#31,049 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Essex County and the region
Centroid at 40.8064, -74.1880 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 34013015200 scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
8.8% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$1,897 rent vs county FMR
3.9
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 34013015200 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 56
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
65%Socioeconomic
20%Household composition
70%Racial/ethnic minority
53%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
58%Grade B
42%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.
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
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
14.5%Housing insecurity
8.0%Utility-shutoff threat
16.2%Food insecurity
9.8%SNAP enrollment
8.5%Transit barriers
13.5%No health insurance
15.8%Frequent mental distress
24.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tract 34013015200
Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.2 points. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.8/10.
On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.2/10. 44% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Essex County average of 50.3%.
Court records carry 276 eviction filings across 6 observed years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 7.4% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 5.2% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Average gross rent runs $1,897 a month.
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 34013015200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34013015200?
Census tract 34013015200 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 34013015200?
Median gross rent is $1,897/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34013015200?
8.8% of residents in tract 34013015200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,334.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34013015200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 56th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 65th, household 20th, minority 70th, housing 53th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34013015200?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 276 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 34013015200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.20% of renter households, peaking at 7.4% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34013015200 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.5% 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. 8.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
Was tract 34013015200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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.