Koreatown Eviction Risk: High , Fort Lee
Tract 34003019204 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 3,608 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Tract 34003019204 sits in the Koreatown area of Fort Lee eviction risk, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.3/10. It is home to 3,608 residents. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Lee and the region
Centroid at 40.8536, -73.9784 · click any tract to drill in
Why Koreatown scores 8.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Koreatown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 63%Socioeconomic
- 89%Household composition
- 77%Racial/ethnic minority
- 77%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
- 1%Grade B
- 81%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)
- 70Total filings over 5 yrs
- 1.73%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.1%Peak (2014)
- 14Filings 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.
- 9.1%Housing insecurity
- 5.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.7%Food insecurity
- 7.2%SNAP enrollment
- 6.1%Transit barriers
- 8.9%No health insurance
- 11.7%Frequent mental distress
- 24.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Koreatown
It sits 2.0 points above the Bergen County average of 6.3. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
At $1,861 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Fort Lee commands. Running cool, economic stress reads 2.8/10.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 70 filings here across 5 tracked years. SNAP participation runs 7.2% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2014 at 2.1% of renter households.
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 1.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #6,330 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Social vulnerability reads 8.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 2.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 34003019204
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