Census Tract · Ranked #8,653 of 84,120 nationally

Bayonne Eviction Risk: Elevated

Tract 34017010702 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 1,718

34017010702 is a census tract in Bayonne, NJ. It scores 7.9/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

7.9

Elevated

Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 25% Stable renters 22% Owners 53%

Tract context

Occupied units694

Renter share47.6%

SVI overall0.93

Poverty rate18.1%

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Bayonne and the region

Centroid at 40.6667, -74.1139 · click any tract to drill in

Why Bayonne scores 7.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local 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

18.1% poverty · this tract

4.5

Supply constraint

tract rent vs county FMR

5.0

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: 93

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

76%Socioeconomic
98%Household composition
88%Racial/ethnic minority
82%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
36%Grade C
64%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.

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.

21.7%Housing insecurity
14.0%Utility-shutoff threat
30.7%Food insecurity
23.3%SNAP enrollment
14.6%Transit barriers
20.5%No health insurance
19.2%Frequent mental distress
36.5%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Bayonne

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10.

Cost burden runs 53% here against 46.5% across Hudson County. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.6/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 20.5% against 11.3% nationally. The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Housing insecurity runs 21.7% against 14.2% nationally. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Hudson 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. Nationally it ranks #8,653 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 9.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 34017010702

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017010702?

Census tract 34017010702 in Bayonne scores 7.9/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the poverty rate in tract 34017010702?

18.1% of residents in tract 34017010702 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,718.

How socially vulnerable is tract 34017010702?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 76th, household 98th, minority 88th, housing 82th.

What share of households in tract 34017010702 struggle to pay rent?

About 21.7% 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. 14.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 34017010702 compare to Bayonne overall?

Tract 34017010702 scores 7.9/10, higher 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.

Was tract 34017010702 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 64% 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.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Bayonne

Top eight tracts in Bayonne ranked by composite eviction-risk score.