West New York Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34017032400 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 7,293
Census tract 34017032400 covers West New York, home to 7,293 residents. For landlords it grades $1/10, a high reading. That puts it among the highest-scoring tracts in the entire country, the top 1% nationally for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 62% of renter households, a severe level, and 50% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,467 a month while the average household earns $32,642 a year, roughly 54% of income at the averages. Renters make up 86% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across West New York and the region
Centroid at 40.7928, -74.0135 · click any tract to drill in
Why West New York scores 9.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West New York compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 75%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 35%Grade C
- 65%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)
- 391Total filings over 4 yrs
- 5.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.4%Peak (2014)
- 67Filings 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.
- 36.5%Housing insecurity
- 22.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 52.1%Food insecurity
- 41.0%SNAP enrollment
- 24.1%Transit barriers
- 42.4%No health insurance
- 19.5%Frequent mental distress
- 46.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in West New York
What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from West New York eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Hudson County average of 7.0 and above the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 391 eviction filings here over 4 tracked years, with about 5.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 6.4% of renter households in 2014.
In CDC survey modeling, about 36.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 22.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord underwriting a deal here, treat timelines and legal costs as the real risk: West New York eviction risk sits in territory where contested cases drag and tenant defenses are well organized, so airtight notices and screening matter more than usual.
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Highest-risk tracts in West New York
Top eight tracts in West New York ranked by composite eviction-risk score.