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Neighborhood · Ranked #12,919 of 84,120 nationally

Koreatown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Fort Lee

Tract 34003013002 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 6,436 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Tract 34003013002 sits in the Koreatown area of Edgewater, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7/10. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10.

Risk score
7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 31% Owners 50%
Tract context
Occupied units2,967
Renter share50.4%
SVI overall0.42
Poverty rate7.0%
Median income$122,518

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
45 th percentile
Rank, 45th percentileLowHigh
#12 of 21 tracts In Koreatown
Moderate
Within parent city
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Fort Lee
Moderate
Within county
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#70 of 203 tracts In Bergen County
Elevated
Within state
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#647 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Fort Lee and the region

Centroid at 40.8451, -73.9645 · click any tract to drill in

Why Koreatown scores 7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Fort Lee
7.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
7.0% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$2,424 rent vs county FMR
6.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fort Lee
5.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fort Lee
9.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fort Lee
4.3

How Koreatown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Koreatown risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.0This tracttract 0130026.9Fort Leeparent city6.3Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 42

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 397Total filings over 5 yrs
  • 5.91%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.4%Peak (2013)
  • 67Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34003013002
Filings dropped 41% over the past 5 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Koreatown. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Koreatown

Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.7/10. 38% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Bergen County average of 46.6%.

Disability prevalence runs 18.3% against 31.5% nationally. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.

The voucher gap is 17.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Food insecurity runs 9.1% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 397 filings here across 5 tracked years.

Against the Bergen County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2013, when 8.4% 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.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 34003013002

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003013002?

Census tract 34003013002 in the Koreatown neighborhood scores 7/10 (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 34003013002?

Median gross rent is $2,424/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34003013002?

7.0% of residents in tract 34003013002 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,436.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34003013002?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 42th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 39th, household 16th, minority 73th, housing 59th.
Q5

Is tract 34003013002 considered part of Koreatown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34003013002 fall within Koreatown (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003013002?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 397 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003013002 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.91% of renter households, peaking at 8.4% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 34003013002 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.7% 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. 4.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 34003013002 compare to Fort Lee overall?

Tract 34003013002 scores 7/10, right in line with the parent city of Fort Lee at 6.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Fort Lee eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 34003013002 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. 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 Fort Lee

Top eight tracts in Fort Lee ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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