Middlewood Eviction Risk: Elevated , Old Bridge
Tract 34023007704 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 2,711 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 6.2/10, tract 34023007704 in the Middlewood area of Old Bridge, NJ reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,711 residents. 41% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Old Bridge and the region
Centroid at 40.3954, -74.3540 · click any tract to drill in
Why Middlewood scores 6.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Middlewood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 21
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 15%Household composition
- 35%Racial/ethnic minority
- 13%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)
- 5Total filings over 1 yrs
- 4.00%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.0%Peak (2015)
- 5Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Middlewood. 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.
- 12.1%Housing insecurity
- 6.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.7%Food insecurity
- 8.8%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 10.8%No health insurance
- 16.9%Frequent mental distress
- 29.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Middlewood
Cost burden runs 66% here against 44.9% across Middlesex County. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9/10.
At $959 a month, rents run 34% under what the rest of Old Bridge commands. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.8/10.
Court records carry 5 eviction filings across 1 observed years. The worst year on record was 2015, when 4.0% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 4.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 80% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Only 14% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $87,500, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Middlesex County average of 5.7 closely.
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.
About tract 34023007704
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Highest-risk tracts in Old Bridge
Top eight tracts in Old Bridge ranked by composite eviction-risk score.