Kearny Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34017013300 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,296
Census tract 34017013300 covers part of Kearny, NJ, and scores 7.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,296. Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Kearny and the region
Centroid at 40.7590, -74.1592 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kearny scores 7.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Kearny compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 81%Socioeconomic
- 47%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 90%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
- 42%Grade C
- 13%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)
- 404Total filings over 4 yrs
- 15.00%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.4%Peak (2014)
- 99Filings 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.
- 16.1%Housing insecurity
- 8.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.9%Food insecurity
- 11.2%SNAP enrollment
- 9.8%Transit barriers
- 17.0%No health insurance
- 15.7%Frequent mental distress
- 27.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Kearny
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. 74% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.6/10.
The filing record is not thin: 404 evictions over 4 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2014 at 15.4% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 15.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
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.
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Highest-risk tracts in Kearny
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