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Census Tract · Ranked #1,292 of 84,120 nationally

Newark Eviction Risk: High

Tract 34013000200 · Essex County, NJ · pop 3,444

Census tract 34013000200 belongs to Newark, New Jersey. It is home to 3,444 residents and scores 7.5/10, an elevated reading for landlords. That is riskier than roughly 99% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 29% of renter households, a moderate level, and 14% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,121 a month against an average household income of $59,839 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 67% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 48% Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units1,319
Renter share67.5%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate25.3%
Median income$59,839

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#43 of 88 tracts In Newark
Moderate
Within county
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#48 of 211 tracts In Essex County
High
Within state
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#145 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Very High
National
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#1,292 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Newark and the region

Centroid at 40.7738, -74.1751 · click any tract to drill in

Why Newark scores 8.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Newark
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
25.3% poverty · this tract
6.3
Supply constraint
$1,121 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Newark
9.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Newark
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Newark
8.0

How Newark compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Newark risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.48.4This tracttract 000200Newark: 9.09.0Newarkparent cityCounty: 5.85.8Countyavg tract in countyState: 4.34.3Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 93

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

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.

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)

  • 836Total filings over 6 yrs
  • 14.41%Avg annual filing rate
  • 24.8%Peak (2018)
  • 235Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 340130002002013: 101 filings (9.99/100 renter HHs)2014: 80 filings (7.91/100 renter HHs)2015: 91 filings (9.00/100 renter HHs)2016: 131 filings (13.83/100 renter HHs)2017: 198 filings (20.91/100 renter HHs)2018: 235 filings (24.82/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 133% over the past 6 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Newark

What moves this score most is rent-control risk 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 Newark eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Essex County average of 7.3 and above the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 33% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

In CDC survey modeling, about 29.8% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 16.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.

Frequently asked

About tract 34013000200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34013000200?

Census tract 34013000200 in Newark scores 8.4/10 (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 34013000200?

Median gross rent is $1,121/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 29% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34013000200?

25.3% of residents in tract 34013000200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,444.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34013000200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 91th, minority 93th, housing 83th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34013000200?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 836 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 34013000200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 14.41% of renter households, peaking at 24.8% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 34013000200 struggle to pay rent?

About 29.8% 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. 16.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 34013000200 compare to Newark overall?

Tract 34013000200 scores 8.4/10, lower than the parent city of Newark at 9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Newark eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 34013000200 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. 33% 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 Newark

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

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