Within parent city
44
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #14,906 of 84,120 nationally
Linden Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34039035200 · Union County, NJ · pop 2,979
34039035200 is a census tract in Linden, NJ. It scores 6.6/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,979 residents. Against Union County at 44.6%, 30% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
6.6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13%
Stable renters 31%
Owners 56%
Tract context
Occupied units871
Renter share44.5%
SVI overall0.61
Poverty rate8.7%
Median income$97,377
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
53
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
65
th percentile
Elevated
National
82
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Linden and the region
Centroid at 40.6436, -74.2261 · click any tract to drill in
Why Linden scores 6.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Linden
7.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
8.7% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$1,721 rent vs county FMR
3.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Linden
6.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Linden
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Linden
5.7
How Linden compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 61
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 64%Socioeconomic
- 56%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 40%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 37%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.
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)
- 126Total filings over 4 yrs
- 7.58%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.9%Peak (2016)
- 27Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 27% over the past 4 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.
- 17.5%Housing insecurity
- 8.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.8%Food insecurity
- 9.4%SNAP enrollment
- 9.2%Transit barriers
- 19.1%No health insurance
- 15.4%Frequent mental distress
- 25.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Linden
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Running cool, economic stress reads 2.2/10. The filing record is not thin: 126 evictions over 4 years of observation.
Adults with no health insurance runs 19.1% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2016 at 8.9% of renter households.
This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Union Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 7.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #14,906 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.5/10. It tracks the Union County average of 6.6 closely.
Average gross rent is $1,721, close to the Linden average. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $97,377.
45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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 34039035200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34039035200?
Census tract 34039035200 in Linden scores 6.6/10 (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 34039035200?
Median gross rent is $1,721/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 30% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34039035200?
8.7% of residents in tract 34039035200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,979.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34039035200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 61th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 64th, household 56th, minority 80th, housing 40th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34039035200?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 126 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34039035200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.58% of renter households, peaking at 8.9% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34039035200 struggle to pay rent?
About 17.5% 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. 8.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34039035200 compare to Linden overall?
Tract 34039035200 scores 6.6/10, right in line with the parent city of Linden at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Linden eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34039035200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 37% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Linden
Top eight tracts in Linden ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
Tract · NJ
34039034500
8
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
34039035100
7.6
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
34039034700
7.1
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34039035000
6.9
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34039035400
6.7
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34039034900
6.5
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34039035300
6.5
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34039034600
6.3
/ 10 · Elevated
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