Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #10,320 of 84,120 nationally
Morningside Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cliffside Park
Tract 34003006201 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 4,601 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi
Census tract 34003006201 covers part of the Morningside Heights area of Cliffside Park, NJ, and scores 7.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10.
Risk score
7.5
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units1,867
Renter share46.5%
SVI overall0.68
Poverty rate8.6%
Median income$96,794
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
60
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
77
th percentile
High
Within state
76
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Cliffside Park and the region
Centroid at 40.8215, -73.9866 · click any tract to drill in
Why Morningside Heights scores 7.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Cliffside Park
7.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
8.6% poverty · this tract
2.1
Supply constraint
$1,425 rent vs county FMR
1.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cliffside Park
6.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cliffside Park
9.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cliffside Park
5.9
How Morningside Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 68
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 62%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 71%Racial/ethnic minority
- 55%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
- 61%Grade B
- 24%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)
- 206Total filings over 5 yrs
- 3.30%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.7%Peak (2013)
- 36Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 39% over the past 5 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Morningside 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.
- 13.0%Housing insecurity
- 6.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.4%Food insecurity
- 8.5%SNAP enrollment
- 7.6%Transit barriers
- 14.6%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 27.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Morningside Heights
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. At $1,425 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Cliffside Park commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.
The severe-burden share is 14%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. It sits 1.2 points above the Bergen County average of 6.3.
Court records carry 206 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Against Bergen County at 46.6%, 51% of renters here are cost-burdened. The worst year on record was 2013, when 4.7% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 3.3% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 7.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Against average income of $96,794, annual rent is just 18%. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. 47% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34003006201
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003006201?
Census tract 34003006201 in the Morningside Heights neighborhood scores 7.5/10 (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 34003006201?
Median gross rent is $1,425/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003006201?
8.6% of residents in tract 34003006201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,601.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003006201?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 68th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 62th, household 73th, minority 71th, housing 55th.
Q5
Is tract 34003006201 considered part of Morningside Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34003006201 fall within Morningside Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003006201?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 206 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003006201 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.30% of renter households, peaking at 4.7% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34003006201 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.0% 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. 6.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34003006201 compare to Cliffside Park overall?
Tract 34003006201 scores 7.5/10, higher than the parent city of Cliffside Park at 6.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cliffside Park eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 34003006201 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 Cliffside Park
Top eight tracts in Cliffside Park ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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