Knickerbocker Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Bergenfield
Tract 34003003500 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 4,039 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 34003003500 sits in the Knickerbocker Park area of Bergenfield eviction risk, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.7/10. It is home to 4,039 residents. Severe burden reaches 46%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Bergenfield and the region
Centroid at 40.9176, -73.9884 · click any tract to drill in
Why Knickerbocker Park scores 7.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Knickerbocker Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 78%Household composition
- 84%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%Housing & transportation
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.
- 1%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 42%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.
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)
- 1,059Total filings over 5 yrs
- 21.45%Avg annual filing rate
- 24.5%Peak (2015)
- 227Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Knickerbocker Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 18.0%Housing insecurity
- 10.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.7%Food insecurity
- 14.3%SNAP enrollment
- 10.5%Transit barriers
- 17.0%No health insurance
- 15.0%Frequent mental distress
- 27.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Knickerbocker Park
74% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Bergen County average of 46.6%. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.
It sits 1.4 points above the Bergen County average of 6.3. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 1,059 filings here across 5 tracked years. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 6.9/10.
The worst year on record was 2015, when 24.5% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Bergen 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 21.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #9,433 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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