Clifton Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34031124500 · Passaic County, NJ · pop 7,313
Census tract 34031124500 covers part of Clifton, NJ, and scores 6.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 7,313 residents. Severe burden reaches 53%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Clifton and the region
Centroid at 40.8659, -74.1502 · click any tract to drill in
Why Clifton scores 6.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Clifton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 87%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 77%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%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)
- 219Total filings over 5 yrs
- 3.38%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.9%Peak (2018)
- 50Filings in 2018 (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.
- 17.9%Housing insecurity
- 9.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 23.1%Food insecurity
- 12.4%SNAP enrollment
- 9.9%Transit barriers
- 19.6%No health insurance
- 15.4%Frequent mental distress
- 30.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Clifton
63% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Passaic County average of 49.2%. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.1/10.
Set annual rent against average income of $63,938 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.3/10.
Running cool, economic stress reads 1.9/10. The filing record is not thin: 219 evictions over 5 years of observation. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.6% against 11.3% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2018 at 3.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 3.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Passaic County average of 6.7 closely.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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Highest-risk tracts in Clifton
Top eight tracts in Clifton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.