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Census Tract · Ranked #5,730 of 84,120 nationally

Bayonne Eviction Risk: High

Tract 34017011300 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,447

Census tract 34017011300 covers part of Bayonne, NJ, and scores 8.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,447. Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 39% Stable renters 31% Owners 30%
Tract context
Occupied units1,391
Renter share70.5%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate18.0%
Median income$55,231

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#4 of 18 tracts In Bayonne
High
Within county
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#49 of 183 tracts In Hudson County
Elevated
Within state
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#297 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
High
National
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#5,730 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Bayonne and the region

Centroid at 40.6568, -74.1246 · click any tract to drill in

Why Bayonne scores 8.4

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
18.0% poverty · this tract
4.5
Supply constraint
$1,690 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.
Bayonne risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.4This tracttract 0113007.2Bayonneparent city7.7Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 90

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)

  • 157Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 5.79%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.9%Peak (2016)
  • 41Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2014 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34017011300
Filings stayed roughly flat 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

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. Set annual rent against average income of $55,231 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. Against Hudson County at 46.5%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.4/10.

The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 157 filings here across 4 tracked years. Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 6.9% of renter households. 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. In a typical year about 5.8% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 93rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.1/10.

Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 34017011300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017011300?

Census tract 34017011300 in Bayonne scores 8.4/10 (High 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 34017011300?

Median gross rent is $1,690/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34017011300?

18.0% of residents in tract 34017011300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,447.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34017011300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 59th, minority 69th, housing 96th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017011300?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 157 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017011300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.79% of renter households, peaking at 6.9% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 34017011300 struggle to pay rent?

About 16.5% 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. 9.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 34017011300 compare to Bayonne overall?

Tract 34017011300 scores 8.4/10, 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 34017011300 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. 63% 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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