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Census Tract · Ranked #5,730 of 84,120 nationally

Newark Eviction Risk: High

Tract 34013980200 · Essex County, NJ · pop 10

With a score of 8.4/10, tract 34013980200 in Newark, NJ reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 10. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 45% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 0% Owners 100%
Tract context
SVI overall-10.00

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
5 th percentile
Rank, 5th percentileLowHigh
#84 of 88 tracts In Newark
Very Low
Within county
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#92 of 211 tracts In Essex County
Elevated
Within state
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#297 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
High
National
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#5,730 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Newark and the region

Centroid at 40.6957, -74.1568 · 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
this tract poverty rate
3.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 / state8.4This tracttract 9802008.5Newarkparent city7.3Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: -1,000

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)

  • 7Total filings over 3 yrs
  • 0.00%Avg annual filing rate
  • 0.0%Peak (2017)
  • 5Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34013980200
Filings dropped 100% over the past 6 months.
Comparable tracts

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Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Newark

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Essex County average of 7.3.

Court records carry 7 eviction filings across 3 observed years. 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. Nationally it ranks #5,730 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Model confidence here is 45%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 34013980200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34013980200?

Census tract 34013980200 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

How socially vulnerable is tract 34013980200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the -1000th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic -1000th, household -1000th, minority -1000th, housing -1000th.
Q3

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34013980200?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 7 eviction filings across 3 validated years in tract 34013980200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.00% of renter households, peaking at 0.0% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q4

How does tract 34013980200 compare to Newark overall?

Tract 34013980200 scores 8.4/10, right in line with 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.
Q5

Was tract 34013980200 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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