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Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally

Radburn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fair Lawn

Tract 34003017400 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 5,894 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Census tract 34003017400 covers part of the Radburn area of Fair Lawn, NJ, and scores 5.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,894 residents. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.

Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7% Stable renters 6% Owners 87%
Tract context
Occupied units1,931
Renter share13.2%
SVI overall0.32
Poverty rate3.2%
Median income$177,245

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
14 th percentile
Rank, 14th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 8 tracts In Radburn
Very Low
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#8 of 8 tracts In Fair Lawn
Very Low
Within county
27 th percentile
Rank, 27th percentileLowHigh
#148 of 203 tracts In Bergen County
Low
Within state
43 th percentile
Rank, 43rd percentileLowHigh
#1,234 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Fair Lawn and the region

Centroid at 40.9355, -74.1027 · click any tract to drill in

Why Radburn scores 5.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
3.2% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,915 rent vs county FMR
4.2
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.
Radburn risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.3This tracttract 0174006.2Fair Lawnparent city6.3Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 32

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

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.

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)

  • 34Total filings over 5 yrs
  • 4.43%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.6%Peak (2018)
  • 14Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34003017400
Filings climbed 180% 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Radburn

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

Cost burden runs 56% here against 46.6% across Bergen County. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.

Food insecurity runs 6.8% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 1.0 points below the Bergen County average of 6.3.

Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 34 filings here across 5 tracked years. Housing insecurity runs 6.7% against 14.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2018, when 6.6% 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 4.4% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 13% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $177,245, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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 34003017400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003017400?

Census tract 34003017400 in the Radburn neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (Moderate 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 34003017400?

Median gross rent is $1,915/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34003017400?

3.2% of residents in tract 34003017400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,894.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34003017400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 32th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 12th, household 66th, minority 50th, housing 46th.
Q5

Is tract 34003017400 considered part of Radburn?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34003017400 fall within Radburn (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003017400?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 34 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003017400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.43% of renter households, peaking at 6.6% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 34003017400 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.7% 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. 3.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 34003017400 compare to Fair Lawn overall?

Tract 34003017400 scores 5.3/10, lower than 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 34003017400 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 Fair Lawn

Top eight tracts in Fair Lawn ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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