Within neighborhood
54
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #5,730 of 84,120 nationally
Garfield Park Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34003021600 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 4,528 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 34003021600 covers part of the Garfield Park area of Garfield, NJ, and scores 8.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,528. Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 33%
Stable renters 31%
Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units1,607
Renter share63.7%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate24.7%
Median income$69,284
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
94
th percentile
Very High
Within state
86
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Garfield and the region
Centroid at 40.8700, -74.1092 · click any tract to drill in
Why Garfield Park scores 8.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Garfield
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
24.7% poverty · this tract
6.2
Supply constraint
$1,628 rent vs county FMR
2.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Garfield
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Garfield
9.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Garfield
6.7
How Garfield Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 77%Household composition
- 76%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%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
- 30%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)
- 456Total filings over 5 yrs
- 7.99%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.0%Peak (2014)
- 68Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 31% over the past 5 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Garfield Park. 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.
- 24.3%Housing insecurity
- 13.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 29.6%Food insecurity
- 20.5%SNAP enrollment
- 14.0%Transit barriers
- 24.3%No health insurance
- 19.2%Frequent mental distress
- 31.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Garfield Park
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. It sits 2.1 points above the Bergen County average of 6.3.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Food insecurity runs 29.6% against 17.8% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 24.3% against 14.2% nationally. 51% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Bergen County average of 46.6%.
Court records carry 456 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.9/10. The worst year on record was 2014, when 10.0% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 8.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 93rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
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 34003021600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003021600?
Census tract 34003021600 in the Garfield Park neighborhood scores 8.4/10 (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 34003021600?
Median gross rent is $1,628/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003021600?
24.7% of residents in tract 34003021600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,528.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003021600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 77th, minority 76th, housing 62th.
Q5
Is tract 34003021600 considered part of Garfield Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34003021600 fall within Garfield Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003021600?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 456 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003021600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.99% of renter households, peaking at 10.0% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34003021600 struggle to pay rent?
About 24.3% 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. 13.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34003021600 compare to Garfield overall?
Tract 34003021600 scores 8.4/10, higher than the parent city of Garfield at 7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Garfield eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 34003021600 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 Garfield
Top eight tracts in Garfield ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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