Within parent city
82
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #5,153 of 84,120 nationally
Hackensack Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34003023602 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 4,393
Census tract 34003023602 covers part of Hackensack, NJ, and scores 8.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,393 residents. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.
Risk score
8.6
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 36%
Stable renters 47%
Owners 17%
Tract context
Occupied units1,420
Renter share82.5%
SVI overall0.98
Poverty rate21.2%
Median income$58,799
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
98
th percentile
Very High
Within state
88
th percentile
High
National
94
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Hackensack and the region
Centroid at 40.8760, -74.0450 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hackensack scores 8.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Hackensack
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
21.2% poverty · this tract
5.3
Supply constraint
$1,275 rent vs county FMR
1.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Hackensack
6.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Hackensack
9.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Hackensack
6.1
How Hackensack compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 90%Household composition
- 91%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 7%Grade C
- 69%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)
- 454Total filings over 5 yrs
- 8.63%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.4%Peak (2014)
- 80Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 5 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 26.4%Housing insecurity
- 13.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 31.3%Food insecurity
- 19.0%SNAP enrollment
- 14.2%Transit barriers
- 30.2%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 32.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Hackensack
Against the Bergen County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points. This is renter territory: 82% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Adults with no health insurance runs 30.2% against 11.3% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,275, 33% below the Hackensack average. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.2/10.
Food insecurity runs 31.3% against 17.8% nationally. 16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
The filing record is not thin: 454 evictions over 5 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2014 at 11.4% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 8.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 94% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34003023602
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003023602?
Census tract 34003023602 in Hackensack scores 8.6/10 (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 34003023602?
Median gross rent is $1,275/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34003023602?
21.2% of residents in tract 34003023602 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,393.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34003023602?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 98th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 97th, household 90th, minority 91th, housing 92th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003023602?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 454 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003023602 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.63% of renter households, peaking at 11.4% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34003023602 struggle to pay rent?
About 26.4% 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. 13.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34003023602 compare to Hackensack overall?
Tract 34003023602 scores 8.6/10, higher than the parent city of Hackensack at 7.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Hackensack eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34003023602 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 69% 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 Hackensack
Top eight tracts in Hackensack ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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34003023402
8.6
/ 10 · High
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34003023501
8.6
/ 10 · High
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34003023502
8.6
/ 10 · High
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34003023601
8.3
/ 10 · High
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Manordome
8.2
/ 10 · High
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8.2
/ 10 · High
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8.1
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
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8
/ 10 · High
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