Within neighborhood
21
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Academy Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Newark
Tract 34013019300 · Essex County, NJ · pop 3,607 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 34013019300 sits in the Academy Heights area of Essex County, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.6/10. It is home to 3,607 residents. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.7/10.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 33%
Stable renters 37%
Owners 30%
Tract context
Occupied units1,805
Renter share69.8%
SVI overall0.39
Poverty rate5.6%
Median income$135,114
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
9
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
28
th percentile
Low
National
53
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Newark and the region
Centroid at 40.7420, -74.2648 · click any tract to drill in
Why Academy Heights scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Newark
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
5.6% poverty · this tract
1.4
Supply constraint
$2,690 rent vs county FMR
7.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Newark
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Newark
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Newark
5.0
How Academy Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 39
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 20%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 54%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%Housing & transportation
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.
- 4%Grade A
- 72%Grade B
- 2%Grade C
- 22%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.
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)
- 243Total filings over 6 yrs
- 4.44%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.7%Peak (2014)
- 38Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 16% over the past 6 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Academy Heights. 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.
- 8.5%Housing insecurity
- 4.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.1%Food insecurity
- 4.4%SNAP enrollment
- 5.3%Transit barriers
- 6.2%No health insurance
- 13.7%Frequent mental distress
- 17.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Academy Heights
Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.7 points. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.4/10.
70% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. The voucher gap is 25.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Disability prevalence runs 17.1% against 31.5% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.8/10. Food insecurity runs 8.1% against 17.8% nationally.
Court records carry 243 eviction filings across 6 observed years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 5.7% of renter households. 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 4.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34013019300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34013019300?
Census tract 34013019300 in the Academy Heights neighborhood scores 4.6/10 (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 34013019300?
Median gross rent is $2,690/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34013019300?
5.6% of residents in tract 34013019300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,607.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34013019300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 39th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 20th, household 11th, minority 54th, housing 89th.
Q5
Is tract 34013019300 considered part of Academy Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34013019300 fall within Academy Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34013019300?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 243 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 34013019300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.44% of renter households, peaking at 5.7% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34013019300 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.5% 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. 4.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34013019300 compare to Newark overall?
Tract 34013019300 scores 4.6/10, lower than the parent city of Newark at 8.5/10. 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.
Q9
Was tract 34013019300 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. 22% 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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