Within parent city
80
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #11,988 of 84,120 nationally
Carteret Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34023003500 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 3,624
Census tract 34023003500 covers part of Carteret, NJ, and scores 7.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs 11% here against 44.9% across Middlesex County.
Risk score
7.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1%
Stable renters 8%
Owners 91%
Tract context
Occupied units1,259
Renter share9.5%
SVI overall0.60
Poverty rate12.0%
Median income$95,443
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
83
th percentile
High
Within state
73
th percentile
Elevated
National
86
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Carteret and the region
Centroid at 40.5909, -74.2448 · click any tract to drill in
Why Carteret scores 7.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Carteret
7.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
12.0% poverty · this tract
3.0
Supply constraint
$1,243 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Carteret
4.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Carteret
8.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Carteret
5.0
How Carteret compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 33%Socioeconomic
- 74%Household composition
- 79%Racial/ethnic minority
- 69%Housing & transportation
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)
- 19Total filings over 1 yrs
- 9.84%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.8%Peak (2015)
- 19Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
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.
- 14.1%Housing insecurity
- 7.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.2%Food insecurity
- 8.8%SNAP enrollment
- 8.3%Transit barriers
- 13.5%No health insurance
- 14.8%Frequent mental distress
- 27.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Carteret
Average gross rent is $1,243, 39% below the Carteret average. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10. Against the Middlesex County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. The filing record is not thin: 19 evictions over 1 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2015 at 9.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 9.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 86% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
At 9% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Against average income of $95,443, annual rent is just 16%. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34023003500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34023003500?
Census tract 34023003500 in Carteret scores 7.2/10 (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 34023003500?
Median gross rent is $1,243/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 11% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34023003500?
12.0% of residents in tract 34023003500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,624.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34023003500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 60th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 74th, minority 79th, housing 69th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34023003500?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 19 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 34023003500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.84% of renter households, peaking at 9.8% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34023003500 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.1% 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. 7.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34023003500 compare to Carteret overall?
Tract 34023003500 scores 7.2/10, higher than the parent city of Carteret at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Carteret eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Carteret
Top eight tracts in Carteret ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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