Within parent city
59
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #9,433 of 84,120 nationally
Bayonne Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34017011000 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 2,779
With a score of 7.7/10, tract 34017011000 in Bayonne, NJ reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,779. 42% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
7.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 42%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 35%
Tract context
Occupied units1,027
Renter share64.8%
SVI overall0.72
Poverty rate13.9%
Median income$66,250
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
51
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
78
th percentile
High
National
89
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Bayonne and the region
Centroid at 40.6629, -74.1208 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bayonne scores 7.7
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
13.9% poverty · this tract
3.5
Supply constraint
$1,692 rent vs county FMR
2.4
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: 72
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 68%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 53%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
- 15%Grade C
- 85%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)
- 324Total filings over 4 yrs
- 13.98%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.7%Peak (2014)
- 62Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 42% 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.
- 19.2%Housing insecurity
- 12.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 25.3%Food insecurity
- 17.6%SNAP enrollment
- 12.2%Transit barriers
- 15.9%No health insurance
- 17.2%Frequent mental distress
- 29.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bayonne
Cost burden runs roughly two in three here against 46.5% across Hudson County. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.4/10.
Court records carry 324 eviction filings across 4 observed years. Food insecurity runs 25.3% against 17.8% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2014, when 16.7% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 14.0% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 89th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.5/10.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34017011000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017011000?
Census tract 34017011000 in Bayonne scores 7.7/10 (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 34017011000?
Median gross rent is $1,692/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34017011000?
13.9% of residents in tract 34017011000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,779.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34017011000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 72th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 68th, household 73th, minority 83th, housing 53th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017011000?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 324 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017011000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 13.98% of renter households, peaking at 16.7% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34017011000 struggle to pay rent?
About 19.2% 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. 12.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34017011000 compare to Bayonne overall?
Tract 34017011000 scores 7.7/10, 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.
Q8
Was tract 34017011000 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. 85% 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.
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8.6
/ 10 · High
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8.5
/ 10 · High
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34017010601
8.5
/ 10 · High
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34017011300
8.4
/ 10 · High
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34017010701
7.9
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
34017010702
7.9
/ 10 · High
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34017011100
7.8
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
34017011200
7.5
/ 10 · High
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