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Neighborhood · Ranked #41,065 of 84,120 nationally

Anchorage Poynte Eviction Risk: Moderate , Ocean City

Tract 34009020201 · Cape May County, NJ · pop 1,432 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

Census tract 34009020201 sits in Anchorage Poynte in Ocean City, New Jersey eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 5.9/10. That is riskier than roughly 71% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 43% of renter households, a severe level, and 43% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,404 monthly, set against $127,955 in average yearly household income, roughly 13% of income at the averages. About 12% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 5% Stable renters 7% Owners 88%
Tract context
Occupied units618
Renter share12.5%
SVI overall0.01
Poverty rate2.9%
Median income$127,955

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Anchorage Poynte
Moderate
Within parent city
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 6 tracts In Ocean City
Low
Within county
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#13 of 32 tracts In Cape May County
Elevated
Within state
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#949 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Ocean City and the region

Centroid at 39.2978, -74.5781 · click any tract to drill in

Why Anchorage Poynte scores 4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Ocean City
5.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.2
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
2.9% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,404 rent vs county FMR
3.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Ocean City
5.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Ocean City
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Ocean City
5.7

How Anchorage Poynte compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Anchorage Poynte risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 4.04.0This tracttract 020201Ocean City: 7.47.4Ocean Cityparent cityCounty: 3.93.9Countyavg tract in countyState: 4.34.3Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 1

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

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)

  • 2Total filings over 1 yrs
  • 1.21%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.2%Peak (2013)
  • 2Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 340090202012013: 2 filings (1.21/100 renter HHs)2016: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2017: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2018: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 100% over the past 4 months.
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 Anchorage Poynte

What moves this score most is eviction process difficulty at $1/10. 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 Ocean City, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Cape May County average of 6.0 and below the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 1st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.

In CDC survey modeling, about 4.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 2.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 34009020201

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34009020201?

Census tract 34009020201 in the Anchorage Poynte neighborhood scores 4/10 (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 34009020201?

Median gross rent is $1,404/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34009020201?

2.9% of residents in tract 34009020201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,432.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34009020201?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 1th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 2th, household 14th, minority 4th, housing 4th.
Q5

Is tract 34009020201 considered part of Anchorage Poynte?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34009020201 fall within Anchorage Poynte (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34009020201?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 2 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 34009020201 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.21% of renter households, peaking at 1.2% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 34009020201 struggle to pay rent?

About 4.2% 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. 2.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 34009020201 compare to Ocean City overall?

Tract 34009020201 scores 4/10, lower than the parent city of Ocean City at 7.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Ocean City; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Ocean City

Top eight tracts in Ocean City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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