Jersey City Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34017005500 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,201
With a score of $1/10, tract 34017005500 in Jersey City ranks in the High tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 3,201 residents. That puts it among the highest-scoring tracts in the entire country, the top 1% nationally for landlord eviction difficulty.
64% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 39% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,559 monthly, set against $60,523 in average yearly household income, roughly 31% of income at the averages. Renters make up 62% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Jersey City and the region
Centroid at 40.7044, -74.0834 · click any tract to drill in
Why Jersey City scores 8.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Jersey City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 87%Socioeconomic
- 79%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%Housing & transportation
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
- 100%Grade C
- 0%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.
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)
- 543Total filings over 4 yrs
- 21.19%Avg annual filing rate
- 35.0%Peak (2014)
- 108Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 28.1%Housing insecurity
- 19.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.6%Food insecurity
- 28.9%SNAP enrollment
- 17.7%Transit barriers
- 16.1%No health insurance
- 19.4%Frequent mental distress
- 34.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Jersey City
What moves this score most is economic stress at 8.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Jersey City eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Hudson County average of 7.0 and above the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 92nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 543 eviction filings here over 4 tracked years, with about 21.2% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 35.0% of renter households in 2014.
For a landlord underwriting a deal here, treat timelines and legal costs as the real risk: Jersey City eviction risk sits in territory where contested cases drag and tenant defenses are well organized, so airtight notices and screening matter more than usual.
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Highest-risk tracts in Jersey City
Top eight tracts in Jersey City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.