West New York Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34017015300 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 4,695
With a score of 9.5/10, tract 34017015300 in West New York, NJ reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,695. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.9/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across West New York and the region
Centroid at 40.7903, -74.0066 · click any tract to drill in
Why West New York scores 9.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West New York compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 17%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 73%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)
- 612Total filings over 4 yrs
- 10.53%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.8%Peak (2014)
- 138Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 25.9%Housing insecurity
- 13.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 33.0%Food insecurity
- 19.7%SNAP enrollment
- 14.7%Transit barriers
- 29.8%No health insurance
- 17.0%Frequent mental distress
- 34.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in West New York
29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Adults with no health insurance runs 29.8% against 11.3% nationally. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.2/10. Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points.
Food insecurity runs 33.0% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10.
Against Hudson County at 46.5%, 54% of renters here are cost-burdened. Average gross rent is $1,420, 17% below the West New York average.
The filing record is not thin: 612 evictions over 4 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2014, when 12.8% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 10.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 97% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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