Within parent city
82
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #5,153 of 84,120 nationally
Plainfield Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34039039600 · Union County, NJ · pop 4,637
Tract 34039039600 sits in Plainfield eviction risk, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.6/10. Against Union County at 44.6%, 71% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
8.6
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units1,352
Renter share45.0%
SVI overall0.98
Poverty rate21.8%
Median income$82,073
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
83
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 40.6036, -74.4238 · 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
21.8% poverty · this tract
5.5
Supply constraint
$1,706 rent vs county FMR
3.0
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: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 81%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 83%Grade B
- 13%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.
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)
- 369Total filings over 4 yrs
- 14.75%Avg annual filing rate
- 18.9%Peak (2013)
- 74Filings 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.
- 26.5%Housing insecurity
- 16.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 32.6%Food insecurity
- 24.3%SNAP enrollment
- 15.7%Transit barriers
- 21.1%No health insurance
- 17.8%Frequent mental distress
- 33.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Plainfield
Severe burden reaches 36%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.
Against the Union County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. Housing insecurity runs 26.5% against 14.2% nationally.
Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
SNAP participation runs 24.3% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 369 evictions over 4 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2013, when 18.9% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34039039600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34039039600?
Census tract 34039039600 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 34039039600?
Median gross rent is $1,706/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 71% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34039039600?
21.8% of residents in tract 34039039600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,637.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34039039600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 98th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 81th, minority 92th, housing 98th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34039039600?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 369 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34039039600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 14.75% of renter households, peaking at 18.9% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34039039600 struggle to pay rent?
About 26.5% 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. 16.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34039039600 compare to Plainfield overall?
Tract 34039039600 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 34039039600 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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 Plainfield
Top eight tracts in Plainfield ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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34039039200
8.6
/ 10 · High
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34039039301
8.6
/ 10 · High
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34039039302
8.6
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
34039039400
8.6
/ 10 · High
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34039039502
8.6
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
34039039000
8.4
/ 10 · High
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34039038800
8.3
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
34039038900
8.2
/ 10 · High
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