Within parent city
24
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally
Clifton Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34031124312 · Passaic County, NJ · pop 4,644
Tract 34031124312 sits in Clifton eviction risk, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.2/10. It is home to 4,644 residents. Severe burden reaches 38%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 77%
Tract context
Occupied units1,815
Renter share23.7%
SVI overall0.23
Poverty rate6.5%
Median income$141,523
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
36
th percentile
Low
Within state
41
th percentile
Moderate
National
65
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Clifton and the region
Centroid at 40.8589, -74.1865 · click any tract to drill in
Why Clifton scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Clifton
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
6.5% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$2,609 rent vs county FMR
7.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Clifton
7.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Clifton
8.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Clifton
5.8
How Clifton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 23
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 18%Socioeconomic
- 20%Household composition
- 57%Racial/ethnic minority
- 36%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 1%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 24Total filings over 5 yrs
- 3.54%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.5%Peak (2016)
- 1Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 80% over the past 5 months.
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.
- 8.7%Housing insecurity
- 4.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.5%Food insecurity
- 4.6%SNAP enrollment
- 5.4%Transit barriers
- 8.2%No health insurance
- 13.7%Frequent mental distress
- 22.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Clifton
At $2,609 a month, rents run 52% over what the rest of Clifton commands. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.1/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.6/10.
The voucher gap is 25.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.3/10.
Against the Passaic County average of 6.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.5 points. SNAP participation runs 4.6% against 15.2% nationally.
Cost burden runs 44% here against 49.2% across Passaic County. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 24 filings here across 5 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 10.5% against 17.8% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2016 at 3.5% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 3.5% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34031124312
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34031124312?
Census tract 34031124312 in Clifton scores 5.2/10 (Moderate 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 34031124312?
Median gross rent is $2,609/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34031124312?
6.5% of residents in tract 34031124312 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,644.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34031124312?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 23th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 18th, household 20th, minority 57th, housing 36th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34031124312?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 24 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34031124312 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.54% of renter households, peaking at 3.5% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34031124312 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.7% 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. 4.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34031124312 compare to Clifton overall?
Tract 34031124312 scores 5.2/10, lower than the parent city of Clifton at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Clifton eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34031124312 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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/ 10 · Elevated
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/ 10 · Elevated
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/ 10 · Elevated
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/ 10 · Elevated
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/ 10 · Elevated
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