Within county
85
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #4,119 of 84,120 nationally
Tract 34017014502 Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34017014502 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,713
Census tract 34017014502 covers part of Hudson County, NJ, and scores 9/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,713 residents. This is renter territory: 93% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Risk score
9
High
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 55%
Stable renters 37%
Owners 8%
Tract context
Occupied units2,092
Renter share92.5%
SVI overall0.96
Poverty rate33.2%
Median income$27,169
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within state
91
th percentile
Very High
National
95
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Hudson County and the region
Centroid at 40.7945, -74.0231 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 34017014502 scores 9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
State baseline
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
33.2% poverty · this tract
8.3
Supply constraint
$599 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
State baseline
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
State baseline
4.0
Housing court bias
State baseline
5.0
How Tract 34017014502 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 96
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 67%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
- 0%Grade C
- 46%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)
- 134Total filings over 4 yrs
- 2.10%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.4%Peak (2014)
- 20Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 64% 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.
- 22.1%Housing insecurity
- 13.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 33.0%Food insecurity
- 22.4%SNAP enrollment
- 14.5%Transit barriers
- 28.0%No health insurance
- 15.0%Frequent mental distress
- 42.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tract 34017014502
Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. Cost burden runs 60% here against 46.5% across Hudson County.
The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Adults with no health insurance runs 28.0% against 11.3% nationally.
Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.3/10.
Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. The filing record is not thin: 134 evictions over 4 years of observation.
SNAP participation runs 22.4% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2014 at 3.4% 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 2.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #4,119 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34017014502
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017014502?
Census tract 34017014502 in Hudson County scores 9/10 (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 34017014502?
Median gross rent is $599/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34017014502?
33.2% of residents in tract 34017014502 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,713.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34017014502?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 96th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 97th, minority 88th, housing 67th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017014502?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 134 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017014502 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.10% of renter households, peaking at 3.4% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34017014502 struggle to pay rent?
About 22.1% 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. 13.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
Was tract 34017014502 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. 46% 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.
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