Island Beach Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Toms River
Tract 34029723600 · Ocean County, NJ · pop 2,715 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Island Beach Heights in Toms River is where census tract 34029723600 sits, home to 2,715 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 5.8/10. That is riskier than about 68% of US census tracts.
About 26% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a moderate level, and 11% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,275 monthly, set against $80,500 in average yearly household income, roughly 19% of income at the averages. Renters make up 11% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Toms River and the region
Centroid at 39.9476, -74.1608 · click any tract to drill in
Why Island Beach Heights scores 4.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Island Beach Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 24
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 27%Socioeconomic
- 21%Household composition
- 20%Racial/ethnic minority
- 41%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)
- 171Total filings over 6 yrs
- 16.41%Avg annual filing rate
- 23.5%Peak (2015)
- 23Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 9.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.8%Food insecurity
- 6.7%SNAP enrollment
- 6.5%Transit barriers
- 7.9%No health insurance
- 15.4%Frequent mental distress
- 24.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Island Beach Heights
The score leans hardest on eviction process difficulty at 6.9/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Toms River eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Ocean County average of 6.3 and below the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 9.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 6.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 171 eviction filings here over 6 tracked years, with about 16.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 23.5% of renter households in 2015.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 34029723600
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Highest-risk tracts in Toms River
Top eight tracts in Toms River ranked by composite eviction-risk score.