Koreatown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Lee
Tract 34003019304 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 2,674 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Census tract 34003019304 covers the Koreatown area of Fort Lee, home to 2,674 residents. For landlords it grades 6.6/10, an elevated reading. That is riskier than about 89% of US census tracts.
About 44% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 39% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $2,310 a month against an average household income of $124,412 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 33% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Lee and the region
Centroid at 40.8364, -73.9853 · click any tract to drill in
Why Koreatown scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Koreatown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 52
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 53%Socioeconomic
- 26%Household composition
- 75%Racial/ethnic minority
- 53%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
- 23%Grade B
- 55%Grade C
- 6%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)
- 47Total filings over 5 yrs
- 3.35%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.7%Peak (2014)
- 4Filings 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.
- 10.5%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.9%Food insecurity
- 6.8%SNAP enrollment
- 6.4%Transit barriers
- 9.9%No health insurance
- 13.5%Frequent mental distress
- 22.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Koreatown
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 8.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Fort Lee eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Bergen County average of 6.3 and in line with the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 6% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
The tract is White and Asian and ranks around the 52nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 34003019304
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Highest-risk tracts in Fort Lee
Top eight tracts in Fort Lee ranked by composite eviction-risk score.