Within parent city
53
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally
Clifton Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34031124700 · Passaic County, NJ · pop 6,356
Tract 34031124700 sits in Clifton eviction risk, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.1/10.
Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 63%
Tract context
Occupied units2,107
Renter share37.1%
SVI overall0.63
Poverty rate9.1%
Median income$101,145
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
41
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
53
th percentile
Moderate
National
76
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Clifton and the region
Centroid at 40.8882, -74.1399 · click any tract to drill in
Why Clifton scores 5.8
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
9.1% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$1,855 rent vs county FMR
4.0
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: 63
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 81%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 26%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)
- 201Total filings over 5 yrs
- 5.25%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.1%Peak (2014)
- 38Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat 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.
- 17.8%Housing insecurity
- 8.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.5%Food insecurity
- 9.6%SNAP enrollment
- 9.0%Transit barriers
- 19.3%No health insurance
- 15.7%Frequent mental distress
- 27.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Clifton
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.3/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10. The severe-burden share is 11%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Cost burden runs 44% here against 49.2% across Passaic County. It sits 0.9 points below the Passaic County average of 6.7.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 201 filings here across 5 tracked years. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.3% against 11.3% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 6.1% of renter households. Average gross rent is $1,855, 8% above the Clifton average. In a typical year about 5.3% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #20,506 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.7/10.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 34031124700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34031124700?
Census tract 34031124700 in Clifton scores 5.8/10 (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 34031124700?
Median gross rent is $1,855/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34031124700?
9.1% of residents in tract 34031124700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,356.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34031124700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 63th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 81th, minority 64th, housing 26th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34031124700?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 201 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34031124700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.25% of renter households, peaking at 6.1% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34031124700 struggle to pay rent?
About 17.8% 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. 8.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34031124700 compare to Clifton overall?
Tract 34031124700 scores 5.8/10, 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Clifton
Top eight tracts in Clifton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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/ 10 · High
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/ 10 · Elevated
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6.8
/ 10 · Elevated
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6.8
/ 10 · Elevated
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6.7
/ 10 · Elevated
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/ 10 · Elevated
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/ 10 · Elevated
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/ 10 · Elevated
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