Within neighborhood
17
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #11,988 of 84,120 nationally
The Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Jersey City
Tract 34017000400 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,746 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
34017000400 is a census tract in the The Heights area of Jersey City, NJ. It scores 7.2/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,746 residents. What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10.
Risk score
7.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%
Stable renters 36%
Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units1,317
Renter share57.6%
SVI overall0.76
Poverty rate7.9%
Median income$92,250
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
28
th percentile
Low
Within county
39
th percentile
Low
Within state
73
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Jersey City and the region
Centroid at 40.7498, -74.0584 · click any tract to drill in
Why The Heights scores 7.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Jersey City
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
7.9% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,703 rent vs county FMR
2.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Jersey City
8.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Jersey City
7.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Jersey City
8.0
How The Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 76
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 71%Socioeconomic
- 69%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 24%Grade C
- 68%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)
- 222Total filings over 4 yrs
- 7.85%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.4%Peak (2014)
- 52Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 33% over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within The 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.
- 13.1%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.5%Food insecurity
- 8.1%SNAP enrollment
- 8.0%Transit barriers
- 13.7%No health insurance
- 13.6%Frequent mental distress
- 22.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in The Heights
22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10.
Against Hudson County at 46.5%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.
The filing record is not thin: 222 evictions over 4 years of observation. At $1,703 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Jersey City commands. SNAP participation runs 8.1% against 15.2% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2014, when 9.4% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 7.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 86th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. It tracks the Hudson County average of 7.7 closely.
Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $92,250.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34017000400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017000400?
Census tract 34017000400 in the The Heights neighborhood scores 7.2/10 (Elevated 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 34017000400?
Median gross rent is $1,703/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34017000400?
7.9% of residents in tract 34017000400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,746.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34017000400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 76th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 71th, household 69th, minority 86th, housing 65th.
Q5
Is tract 34017000400 considered part of The Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34017000400 fall within The Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017000400?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 222 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017000400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.85% of renter households, peaking at 9.4% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34017000400 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.1% 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. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34017000400 compare to Jersey City overall?
Tract 34017000400 scores 7.2/10, lower than the parent city of Jersey City at 8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Jersey City eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 34017000400 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. 68% 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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