Elizabeth Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34039031700 · Union County, NJ · pop 6,076
The Elevated-tier score of 7.3/10 for census tract 34039031700 reflects conditions in Elizabeth, New Jersey. That is riskier than about 97% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 51% of renter households, a severe level, and 20% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,222 a month against an average household income of $50,955 a year, roughly 29% of income at the averages. About 86% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Elizabeth and the region
Centroid at 40.6768, -74.2174 · click any tract to drill in
Why Elizabeth scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Elizabeth compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 96
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 91%Socioeconomic
- 82%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 94%Housing & transportation
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.
- 51%Grade A
- 33%Grade B
- 3%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.
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)
- 1,792Total filings over 4 yrs
- 25.03%Avg annual filing rate
- 31.4%Peak (2013)
- 411Filings 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.
- 28.2%Housing insecurity
- 16.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.0%Food insecurity
- 24.6%SNAP enrollment
- 16.0%Transit barriers
- 24.7%No health insurance
- 18.8%Frequent mental distress
- 33.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Elizabeth
The score leans hardest on eviction process difficulty at 7.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Elizabeth eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Union County average of 6.6 and above the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is Hispanic or Latino and Black and ranks around the 96th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 28.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 16.6% 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 34039031700
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Highest-risk tracts in Elizabeth
Top eight tracts in Elizabeth ranked by composite eviction-risk score.