Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Ventnor Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Ventnor City
Tract 34001013302 · Atlantic County, NJ · pop 2,516 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 34001013302 sits in the Ventnor Heights area of Ventnor City, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. It is home to 2,516 residents. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.3/10.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 67%
Tract context
Occupied units1,257
Renter share33.2%
SVI overall0.36
Poverty rate17.3%
Median income$84,063
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
51
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
45
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Ventnor City and the region
Centroid at 39.3386, -74.4800 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ventnor Heights scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Ventnor City
5.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.3
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
17.3% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$1,684 rent vs county FMR
4.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Ventnor City
5.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Ventnor City
4.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Ventnor City
5.5
How Ventnor Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 36
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 50%Socioeconomic
- 41%Household composition
- 45%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%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.
- 16%Grade A
- 24%Grade B
- 2%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)
- 225Total filings over 6 yrs
- 9.98%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.2%Peak (2017)
- 41Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 6 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Ventnor Heights. 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.
- 9.5%Housing insecurity
- 6.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.9%Food insecurity
- 7.8%SNAP enrollment
- 6.8%Transit barriers
- 8.5%No health insurance
- 14.9%Frequent mental distress
- 28.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Ventnor Heights
Cost burden runs 38% here against 48.9% across Atlantic County. The severe-burden share is 21%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. At $1,684 a month, rents run 19% over what the rest of Ventnor City commands.
The filing record is not thin: 225 evictions over 6 years of observation. SNAP participation runs 7.8% against 15.2% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2017 at 13.2% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Atlantic City. 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 10.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.2/10.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Atlantic County average of 5.5 closely. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $84,063.
33% 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 34001013302
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34001013302?
Census tract 34001013302 in the Ventnor Heights neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate 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 34001013302?
Median gross rent is $1,684/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34001013302?
17.3% of residents in tract 34001013302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,516.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34001013302?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 36th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 50th, household 41th, minority 45th, housing 19th.
Q5
Is tract 34001013302 considered part of Ventnor Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34001013302 fall within Ventnor Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34001013302?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 225 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 34001013302 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.98% of renter households, peaking at 13.2% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34001013302 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.5% 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. 6.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34001013302 compare to Ventnor City overall?
Tract 34001013302 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Ventnor City at 5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Ventnor City; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 34001013302 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 Ventnor City
Top eight tracts in Ventnor City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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