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Northwest Ridgewood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Midland Park

Tract 34003047200 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 4,570 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Tract 34003047200 sits in the Northwest Ridgewood area of Ridgewood eviction risk, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.2/10. Population here is 4,570. The dominant input is supply constraint at 10/10.

Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 4% Stable renters 6% Owners 90%
Tract context
Occupied units1,619
Renter share10.1%
SVI overall0.06
Poverty rate4.9%
Median income$232,344

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Northwest Ridgewood
Very High
Within parent city
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 5 tracts In Midland Park
High
Within county
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#162 of 203 tracts In Bergen County
Low
Within state
41 th percentile
Rank, 41st percentileLowHigh
#1,286 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Midland Park and the region

Centroid at 40.9966, -74.1216 · click any tract to drill in

Why Northwest Ridgewood scores 5.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Midland Park
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
4.9% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$3,357 rent vs county FMR
10.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Midland Park
4.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Midland Park
3.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Midland Park
3.7

How Northwest Ridgewood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Northwest Ridgewood risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.2This tracttract 0472005.9Midland Parkparent city6.3Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 6

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. 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)

  • 5Total filings over 3 yrs
  • 0.95%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.2%Peak (2014)
  • 2Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34003047200
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Northwest Ridgewood. 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 Northwest Ridgewood

The voucher gap is 62.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Average gross rent is $3,357, 34% above the Ridgewood average.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.2/10. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Cost burden runs 38% here against 46.6% across Bergen County.

SNAP participation runs 2.4% against 15.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.

It sits 1.1 points below the Bergen County average of 6.3. The filing record is not thin: 5 evictions over 3 years of observation. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 1.2% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 1.0% of renter households face a filing.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 34003047200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003047200?

Census tract 34003047200 in the Northwest Ridgewood neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (Moderate 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 34003047200?

Median gross rent is $3,357/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34003047200?

4.9% of residents in tract 34003047200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,570.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34003047200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 6th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 5th, household 31th, minority 34th, housing 9th.
Q5

Is tract 34003047200 considered part of Northwest Ridgewood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34003047200 fall within Northwest Ridgewood (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003047200?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 5 eviction filings across 3 validated years in tract 34003047200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.95% of renter households, peaking at 1.2% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 34003047200 struggle to pay rent?

About 5.2% 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. 3.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 34003047200 compare to Midland Park overall?

Tract 34003047200 scores 5.2/10, lower than the parent city of Midland Park at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Midland Park; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 34003047200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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 Midland Park

Top eight tracts in Midland Park ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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