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Neighborhood · Ranked #6,330 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
8.3
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22% Stable renters 27% Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units1,743
Renter share48.9%
SVI overall0.81
Poverty rate11.2%
Median income$74,597

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 21 tracts In Koreatown
Very High
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 10 tracts In Fort Lee
Very High
Within county
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#21 of 203 tracts In Bergen County
Very High
Within state
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#338 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
High
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Fort Lee
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
11.2% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$1,861 rent vs county FMR
4.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fort Lee
6.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fort Lee
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fort Lee
5.6

How Koreatown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Koreatown risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.3This tracttract 0192046.9Fort Leeparent city6.3Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 81

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)

  • 70Total filings over 5 yrs
  • 1.73%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.1%Peak (2014)
  • 14Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34003019204
Filings climbed 17% 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

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 34003019204

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003019204?

Census tract 34003019204 in the Koreatown neighborhood scores 8.3/10 (High 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 34003019204?

Median gross rent is $1,861/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34003019204?

11.2% of residents in tract 34003019204 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,608.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34003019204?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 81th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 63th, household 89th, minority 77th, housing 77th.
Q5

Is tract 34003019204 considered part of Koreatown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34003019204 fall within Koreatown (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003019204?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 70 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003019204 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.73% of renter households, peaking at 2.1% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 34003019204 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.1% 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. 5.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 34003019204 compare to Fort Lee overall?

Tract 34003019204 scores 8.3/10, higher than 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 34003019204 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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