New Brunswick Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34023005200 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 5,555
Eviction risk in New Brunswick eviction risk centers on tract 34023005200, which scores 8.3/10 (High tier) and is home to 5,555 residents. That puts it among the highest-scoring tracts in the entire country, the top 1% nationally for landlord eviction difficulty.
69% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 41% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,991 a month against an average household income of $46,964 a year, roughly 51% of income at the averages. Renters make up 94% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across New Brunswick and the region
Centroid at 40.4964, -74.4553 · click any tract to drill in
Why New Brunswick scores 9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow New Brunswick compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 75%Racial/ethnic minority
- 94%Housing & transportation
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)
- 79Total filings over 1 yrs
- 5.40%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.4%Peak (2015)
- 79Filings in 2015 (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.
- 27.0%Housing insecurity
- 17.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 38.3%Food insecurity
- 28.7%SNAP enrollment
- 20.7%Transit barriers
- 24.1%No health insurance
- 22.8%Frequent mental distress
- 37.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in New Brunswick
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 New Brunswick eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores well above the Middlesex County average of 6.4 and above the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is Hispanic or Latino and White and ranks around the 89th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 27.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 17.4% 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: New Brunswick eviction risk sits in territory where contested cases drag and tenant defenses are well organized, so airtight notices and screening matter more than usual.
About tract 34023005200
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Highest-risk tracts in New Brunswick
Top eight tracts in New Brunswick ranked by composite eviction-risk score.