Within parent city
30
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #14,906 of 84,120 nationally
Kearny Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34017012600 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,671
34017012600 is a census tract in Kearny, NJ. It scores 6.6/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,671 residents. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10.
Risk score
6.6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,373
Renter share38.5%
SVI overall0.59
Poverty rate9.8%
Median income$85,150
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
17
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
65
th percentile
Elevated
National
82
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kearny and the region
Centroid at 40.7709, -74.1427 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kearny scores 6.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Kearny
7.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
9.8% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,669 rent vs county FMR
2.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Kearny
6.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Kearny
9.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Kearny
6.4
How Kearny compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 59
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 37%Household composition
- 75%Racial/ethnic minority
- 70%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 93%Grade B
- 7%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.
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)
- 210Total filings over 4 yrs
- 7.84%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.3%Peak (2014)
- 50Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 25% 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.
- 13.4%Housing insecurity
- 6.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.3%Food insecurity
- 7.6%SNAP enrollment
- 7.9%Transit barriers
- 14.7%No health insurance
- 15.3%Frequent mental distress
- 25.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Kearny
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.3/10.
Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points. Court records carry 210 eviction filings across 4 observed years. SNAP participation runs 7.6% against 15.2% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 9.3% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 7.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 6.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
44% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Average gross rent is $1,669, close to the Kearny average.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 34017012600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017012600?
Census tract 34017012600 in Kearny scores 6.6/10 (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 34017012600?
Median gross rent is $1,669/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34017012600?
9.8% of residents in tract 34017012600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,671.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34017012600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 59th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 37th, minority 75th, housing 70th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017012600?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 210 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017012600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.84% of renter households, peaking at 9.3% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34017012600 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.4% 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. 6.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34017012600 compare to Kearny overall?
Tract 34017012600 scores 6.6/10, lower than the parent city of Kearny at 7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kearny eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34017012600 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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 Kearny
Top eight tracts in Kearny ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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7.8
/ 10 · High
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7.7
/ 10 · High
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7.6
/ 10 · High
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34017013300
7.3
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
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7.2
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
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7
/ 10 · Elevated
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6.7
/ 10 · Elevated
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6.1
/ 10 · Elevated
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