Within parent city
71
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #16,571 of 84,120 nationally
Clifton Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34031124800 · Passaic County, NJ · pop 4,487
With a score of 6.3/10, tract 34031124800 in Clifton, NJ reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Against Passaic County at 49.2%, around two-thirds of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
6.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37%
Stable renters 20%
Owners 43%
Tract context
Occupied units1,578
Renter share56.6%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate6.4%
Median income$73,472
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
45
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
60
th percentile
Elevated
National
80
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Clifton and the region
Centroid at 40.8796, -74.1424 · click any tract to drill in
Why Clifton scores 6.3
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
6.4% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$1,509 rent vs county FMR
2.3
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: 64
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 14%Household composition
- 82%Racial/ethnic minority
- 73%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)
- 197Total filings over 5 yrs
- 6.08%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.3%Peak (2015)
- 35Filings 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.
- 18.2%Housing insecurity
- 9.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.8%Food insecurity
- 11.3%SNAP enrollment
- 9.7%Transit barriers
- 18.8%No health insurance
- 15.8%Frequent mental distress
- 28.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Clifton
The severe-burden share is 31%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.1/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.6/10.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.3/10. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 197 filings here across 5 tracked years. Adults with no health insurance runs 18.8% against 11.3% nationally.
Average gross rent is $1,509, 12% below the Clifton average. The worst year on record was 2015, when 7.3% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.1% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 80% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least 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.
Frequently asked
About tract 34031124800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34031124800?
Census tract 34031124800 in Clifton scores 6.3/10 (Elevated 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 34031124800?
Median gross rent is $1,509/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34031124800?
6.4% of residents in tract 34031124800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,487.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34031124800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 14th, minority 82th, housing 73th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34031124800?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 197 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34031124800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.08% of renter households, peaking at 7.3% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34031124800 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.2% 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. 9.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34031124800 compare to Clifton overall?
Tract 34031124800 scores 6.3/10, 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.
Tract · NJ
34031125100
8
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
34031124323
6.8
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34031124601
6.8
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34031124900
6.8
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34031124500
6.7
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34031124602
5.9
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34031125000
5.9
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34031124700
5.8
/ 10 · Elevated
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