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Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally

Southwest Ridgewood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Glen Rock

Tract 34003061400 · Bergen County, NJ · pop 4,919 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi

Census tract 34003061400 covers part of the Southwest Ridgewood area of Bergen County, NJ, and scores 5.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,919. What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 10/10.

Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 4% Stable renters 4% Owners 92%
Tract context
Occupied units1,737
Renter share8.3%
SVI overall0.01
Poverty rate1.9%
Median income$173,505

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 4 tracts In Southwest Ridgewood
Elevated
Within county
22 th percentile
Rank, 22nd percentileLowHigh
#158 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
National
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#29,336 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Glen Rock and the region

Centroid at 40.9859, -74.1575 · click any tract to drill in

Why Southwest Ridgewood scores 5.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Glen Rock
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
1.9% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$3,501 rent vs county FMR
10.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Glen Rock
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Glen Rock
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Glen Rock
5.0

How Southwest Ridgewood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Southwest Ridgewood risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.2This tracttract 0614005.9Glen Rockparent city6.3Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 1

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

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.

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)

  • 11Total filings over 5 yrs
  • 2.35%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.2%Peak (2017)
  • 2Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34003061400
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 5 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Southwest 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 Southwest Ridgewood

The voucher gap is 69.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. SNAP participation runs 3.1% against 15.2% nationally.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. Against the Bergen County average of 6.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 11 filings here across 5 tracked years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2017 at 3.2% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 2.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 8% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 1.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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 34003061400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34003061400?

Census tract 34003061400 in the Southwest 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 34003061400?

Median gross rent is $3,501/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34003061400?

1.9% of residents in tract 34003061400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,919.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34003061400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 1th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 6th, household 28th, minority 23th, housing 1th.
Q5

Is tract 34003061400 considered part of Southwest Ridgewood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34003061400 fall within Southwest Ridgewood (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34003061400?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 11 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34003061400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.35% of renter households, peaking at 3.2% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 34003061400 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.2% 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. 3.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 34003061400 compare to Glen Rock overall?

Tract 34003061400 scores 5.2/10, lower than the parent city of Glen Rock at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Glen Rock; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 34003061400 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.
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