Within parent city
40
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #15,451 of 84,120 nationally
Rahway Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34039036000 · Union County, NJ · pop 5,300
With a score of 6.5/10, tract 34039036000 in Rahway, NJ reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,300 residents. 59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Union County average of 44.6%.
Risk score
6.5
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 46%
Tract context
Occupied units2,669
Renter share54.0%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate5.9%
Median income$91,286
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
52
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
63
th percentile
Elevated
National
82
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Rahway and the region
Centroid at 40.6072, -74.2667 · click any tract to drill in
Why Rahway scores 6.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Rahway
7.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
5.9% poverty · this tract
1.5
Supply constraint
$2,170 rent vs county FMR
5.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Rahway
6.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Rahway
8.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Rahway
5.4
How Rahway compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 64
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 41%Socioeconomic
- 40%Household composition
- 85%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%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
- 0%Grade B
- 42%Grade C
- 29%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)
- 970Total filings over 4 yrs
- 19.15%Avg annual filing rate
- 21.8%Peak (2013)
- 193Filings 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.
- 17.5%Housing insecurity
- 9.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.6%Food insecurity
- 10.9%SNAP enrollment
- 9.4%Transit barriers
- 13.4%No health insurance
- 15.5%Frequent mental distress
- 24.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Rahway
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.5/10.
Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Average gross rent is $2,170, 18% above the Rahway average. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 970 filings here across 4 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2013 at 21.8% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. In a typical year about 19.1% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34039036000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34039036000?
Census tract 34039036000 in Rahway scores 6.5/10 (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 34039036000?
Median gross rent is $2,170/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 59% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34039036000?
5.9% of residents in tract 34039036000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,300.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34039036000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 41th, household 40th, minority 85th, housing 86th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34039036000?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 970 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34039036000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 19.15% of renter households, peaking at 21.8% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34039036000 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. 9.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34039036000 compare to Rahway overall?
Tract 34039036000 scores 6.5/10, right in line with the parent city of Rahway at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Rahway eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34039036000 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. 29% 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 Rahway
Top eight tracts in Rahway ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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