Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #5,153 of 84,120 nationally
Plainfield Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34039039400 · Union County, NJ · pop 5,811
With a score of 8.6/10, tract 34039039400 in Plainfield, NJ reads high for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,811 residents. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.
Risk score
8.6
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32%
Stable renters 38%
Owners 30%
Tract context
Occupied units1,622
Renter share70.3%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate17.5%
Median income$75,640
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
82
th percentile
High
Within state
88
th percentile
High
National
94
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Plainfield and the region
Centroid at 40.6051, -74.4445 · click any tract to drill in
Why Plainfield scores 8.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Plainfield
7.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
17.5% poverty · this tract
4.4
Supply constraint
$1,645 rent vs county FMR
2.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Plainfield
7.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Plainfield
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Plainfield
7.6
How Plainfield compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 61%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 3%Grade B
- 68%Grade C
- 24%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)
- 397Total filings over 4 yrs
- 12.78%Avg annual filing rate
- 17.7%Peak (2013)
- 86Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 36% 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.
- 32.0%Housing insecurity
- 17.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 38.5%Food insecurity
- 24.9%SNAP enrollment
- 17.8%Transit barriers
- 33.2%No health insurance
- 19.4%Frequent mental distress
- 34.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Plainfield
Food insecurity runs 38.5% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. Housing insecurity runs 32.0% against 14.2% nationally.
Against the Union County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10. Court records carry 397 eviction filings across 4 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2013 at 17.7% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 12.8% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 94% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
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 34039039400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34039039400?
Census tract 34039039400 in Plainfield scores 8.6/10 (High 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 34039039400?
Median gross rent is $1,645/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34039039400?
17.5% of residents in tract 34039039400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,811.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34039039400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 97th, household 88th, minority 96th, housing 61th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34039039400?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 397 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34039039400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 12.78% of renter households, peaking at 17.7% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34039039400 struggle to pay rent?
About 32.0% 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. 17.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34039039400 compare to Plainfield overall?
Tract 34039039400 scores 8.6/10, higher than the parent city of Plainfield at 7.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Plainfield eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34039039400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 24% 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.
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Highest-risk tracts in Plainfield
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/ 10 · High
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/ 10 · High
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/ 10 · High
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