Hackensack Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34003023502 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 5,194
Census tract 34003023502 runs through Hackensack. With 5,194 residents, it scores 6.8/10 for landlords. It lands near the 92nd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
38% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 27% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $2,019 a month while the average household earns $79,881 a year, roughly 30% of income at the averages. Renters make up 72% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Hackensack and the region
Centroid at 40.8846, -74.0508 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hackensack scores 6.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Hackensack compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 29%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 99%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
- 24%Grade B
- 73%Grade C
- 3%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)
- 1,099Total filings over 5 yrs
- 14.54%Avg annual filing rate
- 17.2%Peak (2014)
- 164Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 15.5%Housing insecurity
- 8.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.3%Food insecurity
- 10.5%SNAP enrollment
- 8.6%Transit barriers
- 14.5%No health insurance
- 14.6%Frequent mental distress
- 25.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Hackensack
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 9.7/10. 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 Hackensack eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above 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 3% 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 Hispanic or Latino and White and ranks around the 92nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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Highest-risk tracts in Hackensack
Top eight tracts in Hackensack ranked by composite eviction-risk score.