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Census Tract · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally

Bayonne Eviction Risk: Elevated

Tract 34017011100 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 4,670

Census tract 34017011100 covers part of Bayonne, NJ, and scores 7.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,670 residents. Severe burden reaches 42%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 50% Stable renters 28% Owners 22%
Tract context
Occupied units1,663
Renter share77.5%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate14.0%
Median income$61,625

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 18 tracts In Bayonne
Elevated
Within county
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#82 of 183 tracts In Hudson County
Elevated
Within state
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#442 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
High
National
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#9,043 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Bayonne and the region

Centroid at 40.6647, -74.1276 · click any tract to drill in

Why Bayonne scores 7.8

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
14.0% poverty · this tract
3.5
Supply constraint
$1,606 rent vs county FMR
2.0
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.
Bayonne risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.8This tracttract 0111007.2Bayonneparent city7.7Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 85

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

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.

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)

  • 443Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 8.31%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.5%Peak (2014)
  • 100Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2014 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34017011100
Filings dropped 22% 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Bayonne

Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 46.5% across Hudson County. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.

This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2/10. Food insecurity runs 26.3% against 17.8% nationally.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 443 filings here across 4 tracked years. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.1% against 11.3% nationally.

Filings peaked in 2014 at 9.5% of renter households. 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 8.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.7/10.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 34017011100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017011100?

Census tract 34017011100 in Bayonne scores 7.8/10 (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 34017011100?

Median gross rent is $1,606/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34017011100?

14.0% of residents in tract 34017011100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,670.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34017011100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 63th, minority 79th, housing 64th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017011100?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 443 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017011100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.31% of renter households, peaking at 9.5% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 34017011100 struggle to pay rent?

About 20.6% 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. 12.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 34017011100 compare to Bayonne overall?

Tract 34017011100 scores 7.8/10, 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 34017011100 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. 61% 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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