Within neighborhood
29
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Academy Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Newark
Tract 34013019400 · Essex County, NJ · pop 2,921 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi
34013019400 is a census tract in the Academy Heights area of Essex County, NJ. It scores 4.6/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,921 residents. 59% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3%
Stable renters 1%
Owners 96%
Tract context
Occupied units1,003
Renter share3.7%
SVI overall0.06
Poverty rate3.1%
Median income$250,001
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
10
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 40.7467, -74.2875 · 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
3.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$3,501 rent vs county FMR
10.0
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: 6
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 6%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 28%Racial/ethnic minority
- 18%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 39%Grade A
- 1%Grade B
- 0%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.
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)
- 4Total filings over 4 yrs
- 2.32%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.1%Peak (2013)
- 1Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 100% 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.
- 5.5%Housing insecurity
- 3.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 4.9%Food insecurity
- 2.4%SNAP enrollment
- 3.5%Transit barriers
- 4.5%No health insurance
- 11.7%Frequent mental distress
- 15.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Academy Heights
78% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Essex County average of 50.3%. What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 10/10.
The voucher gap is 63.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Against the Essex County average of 7.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.7 points.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 15.1% against 31.5% nationally.
SNAP participation runs 2.4% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 4 evictions over 4 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2013, when 2.1% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Essex Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 2.3% of renter households face a filing.
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 34013019400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34013019400?
Census tract 34013019400 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 34013019400?
Median gross rent is $3,501/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 78% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34013019400?
3.1% of residents in tract 34013019400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,921.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34013019400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 6th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 6th, household 11th, minority 28th, housing 18th.
Q5
Is tract 34013019400 considered part of Academy Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34013019400 fall within Academy Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34013019400?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 4 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34013019400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.32% of renter households, peaking at 2.1% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34013019400 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.5% 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. 3.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34013019400 compare to Newark overall?
Tract 34013019400 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 34013019400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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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