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Census Tract · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 36% Stable renters 38% Owners 26%
Tract context
Occupied units1,395
Renter share73.9%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate13.9%
Median income$74,821

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 11 tracts In Kearny
Elevated
Within county
43 th percentile
Rank, 43rd percentileLowHigh
#104 of 183 tracts In Hudson County
Moderate
Within state
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#569 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Elevated
National
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#11,153 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
High
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local 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
13.9% poverty · this tract
3.5
Supply constraint
$1,777 rent vs county FMR
2.7
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.
Kearny risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.3This tracttract 0133007.0Kearnyparent city7.7Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 84

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 404Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 15.00%Avg annual filing rate
  • 15.4%Peak (2014)
  • 99Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2014 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34017013300
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 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 34017013300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017013300?

Census tract 34017013300 in Kearny scores 7.3/10 (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 34017013300?

Median gross rent is $1,777/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34017013300?

13.9% of residents in tract 34017013300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,296.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34017013300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 81th, household 47th, minority 80th, housing 90th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017013300?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 404 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017013300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 15.00% of renter households, peaking at 15.4% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 34017013300 struggle to pay rent?

About 16.1% 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. 8.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 34017013300 compare to Kearny overall?

Tract 34017013300 scores 7.3/10, higher 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 34017013300 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 13% 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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