Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #7,382 of 84,120 nationally
East Rutherford Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34003012001 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 6,212
34003012001 is a census tract in East Rutherford, NJ. It scores 8.1/10 for landlords. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.
Risk score
8.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31%
Stable renters 40%
Owners 29%
Tract context
Occupied units2,703
Renter share71.3%
SVI overall0.58
Poverty rate7.9%
Median income$81,445
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
86
th percentile
High
Within state
83
th percentile
High
National
91
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across East Rutherford and the region
Centroid at 40.8149, -74.0822 · click any tract to drill in
Why East Rutherford scores 8.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from East Rutherford
7.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
7.9% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,849 rent vs county FMR
3.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from East Rutherford
4.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from East Rutherford
9.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from East Rutherford
4.4
How East Rutherford compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 56%Socioeconomic
- 16%Household composition
- 68%Racial/ethnic minority
- 78%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%Grade C
- 11%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)
- 528Total filings over 5 yrs
- 6.12%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.7%Peak (2018)
- 145Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 86% over the past 5 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.
- 13.6%Housing insecurity
- 7.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.7%Food insecurity
- 8.3%SNAP enrollment
- 7.6%Transit barriers
- 13.2%No health insurance
- 16.2%Frequent mental distress
- 23.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in East Rutherford
The severe-burden share is 25%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Against the Bergen County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. The filing record is not thin: 528 evictions over 5 years of observation.
The worst year on record was 2018, when 7.7% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 6.1% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 91% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 6.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34003012001
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003012001?
Census tract 34003012001 in East Rutherford scores 8.1/10 (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 34003012001?
Median gross rent is $1,849/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003012001?
7.9% of residents in tract 34003012001 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,212.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003012001?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 58th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 56th, household 16th, minority 68th, housing 78th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003012001?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 528 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003012001 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.12% of renter households, peaking at 7.7% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34003012001 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.6% 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. 7.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34003012001 compare to East Rutherford overall?
Tract 34003012001 scores 8.1/10, higher than the parent city of East Rutherford at 7.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from East Rutherford; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34003012001 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 11% 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 East Rutherford
Top eight tracts in East Rutherford ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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