Paterson Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34031182800 · Passaic County, NJ · pop 3,877
The Elevated-tier score of 7.9/10 for census tract 34031182800 reflects conditions in Paterson, New Jersey. That puts it among the highest-scoring tracts in the entire country, the top 1% nationally for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 70% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 47% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,268 a month against an average household income of $17,357 a year, roughly 88% of income at the averages. Renters make up 97% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Paterson and the region
Centroid at 40.9058, -74.1613 · click any tract to drill in
Why Paterson scores 9.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Paterson compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 100%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 85%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)
- 356Total filings over 5 yrs
- 5.76%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.6%Peak (2018)
- 95Filings 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.
- 35.5%Housing insecurity
- 20.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 50.8%Food insecurity
- 36.5%SNAP enrollment
- 21.6%Transit barriers
- 41.6%No health insurance
- 18.3%Frequent mental distress
- 47.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Paterson
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 8.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Paterson eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Passaic County average of 6.9 and above the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 356 eviction filings here over 5 tracked years, with about 5.8% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 7.6% of renter households in 2018.
In CDC survey modeling, about 35.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 20.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 34031182800
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Highest-risk tracts in Paterson
Top eight tracts in Paterson ranked by composite eviction-risk score.