Within neighborhood
86
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #16,571 of 84,120 nationally
Radburn Eviction Risk: Elevated , Fair Lawn
Tract 34003017200 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 6,616 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
34003017200 is a census tract in the Radburn area of Fair Lawn, NJ. It scores 6.3/10 for landlords. Population here is 6,616. Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
6.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23%
Stable renters 25%
Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units2,507
Renter share48.3%
SVI overall0.38
Poverty rate9.9%
Median income$120,593
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
86
th percentile
High
Within county
56
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
60
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fair Lawn and the region
Centroid at 40.9420, -74.1345 · click any tract to drill in
Why Radburn scores 6.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Fair Lawn
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
9.9% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$1,989 rent vs county FMR
4.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fair Lawn
8.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fair Lawn
4.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fair Lawn
6.0
How Radburn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 38
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 24%Socioeconomic
- 60%Household composition
- 54%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 52%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)
- 342Total filings over 5 yrs
- 5.65%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.0%Peak (2018)
- 84Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 40% over the past 5 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Radburn. 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.
- 10.0%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.8%Food insecurity
- 6.0%SNAP enrollment
- 5.9%Transit barriers
- 9.2%No health insurance
- 14.5%Frequent mental distress
- 21.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Radburn
What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.
Running cool, economic stress reads 2.5/10. SNAP participation runs 6.0% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 342 filings here across 5 tracked years.
Food insecurity runs 10.8% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2018, when 7.0% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
In a typical year about 5.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 80% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.4/10. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. 48% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
It tracks the Bergen County average of 6.3 closely.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 34003017200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003017200?
Census tract 34003017200 in the Radburn neighborhood scores 6.3/10 (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 34003017200?
Median gross rent is $1,989/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003017200?
9.9% of residents in tract 34003017200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,616.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003017200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 38th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 24th, household 60th, minority 54th, housing 44th.
Q5
Is tract 34003017200 considered part of Radburn?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34003017200 fall within Radburn (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003017200?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 342 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003017200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.65% of renter households, peaking at 7.0% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34003017200 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.0% 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. 5.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34003017200 compare to Fair Lawn overall?
Tract 34003017200 scores 6.3/10, right in line with the parent city of Fair Lawn at 6.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Fair Lawn eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 34003017200 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 Fair Lawn
Top eight tracts in Fair Lawn ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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