Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #17,650 of 84,120 nationally
Bayonne Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34017010500 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 5,354
Tract 34017010500 sits in Bayonne eviction risk, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.1/10. Population here is 5,354. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.
Risk score
6.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 44%
Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units2,227
Renter share64.2%
SVI overall0.32
Poverty rate6.9%
Median income$99,017
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
4
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
57
th percentile
Elevated
National
79
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Bayonne and the region
Centroid at 40.6804, -74.1171 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bayonne scores 6.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Bayonne
7.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
6.9% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,648 rent vs county FMR
2.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Bayonne
6.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Bayonne
9.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Bayonne
6.3
How Bayonne compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 32
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 31%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 65%Racial/ethnic minority
- 55%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
- 0%Grade B
- 66%Grade C
- 1%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)
- 304Total filings over 4 yrs
- 7.44%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.7%Peak (2014)
- 65Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 32% over the past 4 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.
- 10.3%Housing insecurity
- 5.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.6%Food insecurity
- 6.0%SNAP enrollment
- 6.3%Transit barriers
- 10.0%No health insurance
- 14.0%Frequent mental distress
- 22.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bayonne
Cost burden runs 32% here against 46.5% across Hudson County. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.6 points.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.7/10. SNAP participation runs 6.0% against 15.2% nationally.
The severe-burden share is 10%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 304 filings here across 4 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 9.7% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 7.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 79th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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 34017010500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017010500?
Census tract 34017010500 in Bayonne scores 6.1/10 (Elevated 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 34017010500?
Median gross rent is $1,648/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34017010500?
6.9% of residents in tract 34017010500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,354.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34017010500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 32th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 31th, household 8th, minority 65th, housing 55th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017010500?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 304 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017010500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.44% of renter households, peaking at 9.7% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34017010500 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.3% 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. 5.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34017010500 compare to Bayonne overall?
Tract 34017010500 scores 6.1/10, lower than the parent city of Bayonne at 7.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Bayonne eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34017010500 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. 1% 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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/ 10 · High
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/ 10 · High
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/ 10 · High
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8.4
/ 10 · High
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7.9
/ 10 · High
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/ 10 · High
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/ 10 · High
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7.7
/ 10 · High
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