River Edge Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34003048200 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 7,940
With a score of 4.9/10, tract 34003048200 in River Edge, NJ reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 7,940 residents. 48% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across River Edge and the region
Centroid at 40.9281, -74.0424 · click any tract to drill in
Why River Edge scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow River Edge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 5
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 4%Socioeconomic
- 17%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 7%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 28%Grade B
- 10%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.
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)
- 21Total filings over 5 yrs
- 3.36%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.2%Peak (2013)
- 2Filings 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.
- 6.2%Housing insecurity
- 3.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.2%Food insecurity
- 2.9%SNAP enrollment
- 3.8%Transit barriers
- 5.5%No health insurance
- 12.1%Frequent mental distress
- 17.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in River Edge
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 17.1% against 31.5% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.
Against the Bergen County average of 6.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points. SNAP participation runs 2.9% against 15.2% nationally.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 21 filings here across 5 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 4.2% 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 3.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 59th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
At 6% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $213,406, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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Highest-risk tracts in River Edge
Top eight tracts in River Edge ranked by composite eviction-risk score.