Within parent city
80
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #2,339 of 84,120 nationally
New Brunswick Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34023005500 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 3,901
Tract 34023005500 sits in New Brunswick eviction risk, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.7/10. The severe-burden share is 44%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
9.7
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 44%
Stable renters 32%
Owners 24%
Tract context
Occupied units1,335
Renter share76.0%
SVI overall0.96
Poverty rate37.7%
Median income$34,750
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 New Brunswick and the region
Centroid at 40.4791, -74.4736 · click any tract to drill in
Why New Brunswick scores 9.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from New Brunswick
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
37.7% poverty · this tract
9.4
Supply constraint
$831 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from New Brunswick
8.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from New Brunswick
9.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from New Brunswick
8.7
How New Brunswick compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 96
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 92%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%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)
- 290Total filings over 1 yrs
- 35.71%Avg annual filing rate
- 35.7%Peak (2015)
- 290Filings 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.
- 37.1%Housing insecurity
- 24.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 48.1%Food insecurity
- 39.2%SNAP enrollment
- 23.0%Transit barriers
- 30.9%No health insurance
- 21.4%Frequent mental distress
- 40.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in New Brunswick
It sits 4.0 points above the Middlesex County average of 5.7. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.9/10.
Average gross rent is $831, 54% below the New Brunswick average. Food insecurity runs 48.1% against 17.8% nationally.
Housing insecurity runs 37.1% against 14.2% nationally. Running hot, economic stress reads 9.4/10. Against Middlesex County at 44.9%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened.
The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9/10.
This is renter territory: 76% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Court records carry 290 eviction filings across 1 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2015 at 35.7% of renter households.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34023005500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34023005500?
Census tract 34023005500 in New Brunswick scores 9.7/10 (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 34023005500?
Median gross rent is $831/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34023005500?
37.7% of residents in tract 34023005500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,901.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34023005500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 96th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 92th, minority 94th, housing 79th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34023005500?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 290 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 34023005500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 35.71% of renter households, peaking at 35.7% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34023005500 struggle to pay rent?
About 37.1% 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. 24.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34023005500 compare to New Brunswick overall?
Tract 34023005500 scores 9.7/10, higher than the parent city of New Brunswick at 8.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from New Brunswick eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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