Within parent city
80
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally
West New York Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34017015802 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 5,466
Census tract 34017015802 covers part of West New York, NJ, and scores 9.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,466 residents. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.9/10.
Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 45%
Stable renters 40%
Owners 15%
Tract context
Occupied units2,535
Renter share85.0%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate22.3%
Median income$55,373
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
98
th percentile
Very High
Within state
97
th percentile
Very High
National
97
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across West New York and the region
Centroid at 40.7822, -74.0143 · click any tract to drill in
Why West New York scores 9.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from West New York
7.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
22.3% poverty · this tract
5.6
Supply constraint
$1,341 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from West New York
7.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from West New York
9.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from West New York
7.7
How West New York compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 87%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%Housing & transportation
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.
- 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.
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)
- 483Total filings over 4 yrs
- 5.20%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.6%Peak (2014)
- 85Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 50% 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.
- 18.6%Housing insecurity
- 9.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.6%Food insecurity
- 13.4%SNAP enrollment
- 10.9%Transit barriers
- 24.9%No health insurance
- 13.6%Frequent mental distress
- 33.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in West New York
Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. This is renter territory: 85% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 24.9% against 11.3% nationally. At $1,341 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of West New York commands.
The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 53% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Hudson County average of 46.5%.
Court records carry 483 eviction filings across 4 observed years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 7.6% 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 5.2% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 97% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
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 34017015802
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017015802?
Census tract 34017015802 in West New York scores 9.5/10 (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 34017015802?
Median gross rent is $1,341/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34017015802?
22.3% of residents in tract 34017015802 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,466.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34017015802?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 87th, household 94th, minority 93th, housing 63th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017015802?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 483 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017015802 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.20% of renter households, peaking at 7.6% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34017015802 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.6% 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. 9.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34017015802 compare to West New York overall?
Tract 34017015802 scores 9.5/10, higher than the parent city of West New York at 8.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from West New York eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34017015802 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. 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.
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