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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Koreatown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 42
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 39%Socioeconomic
- 16%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 59%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.
- 0%Grade A
- 2%Grade B
- 75%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)
- 397Total filings over 5 yrs
- 5.91%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.4%Peak (2013)
- 67Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Koreatown. 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.
- 8.7%Housing insecurity
- 4.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.1%Food insecurity
- 4.7%SNAP enrollment
- 5.1%Transit barriers
- 7.0%No health insurance
- 12.9%Frequent mental distress
- 18.3%Any disability
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.
About tract 34003013002
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