Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally
The Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Jersey City
Tract 34017000800 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,944 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 34017000800 sits in the The Heights area of Jersey City eviction risk, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.8/10. It is home to 3,944 residents. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29%
Stable renters 35%
Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units1,827
Renter share64.7%
SVI overall0.59
Poverty rate20.1%
Median income$117,834
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
45
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
57
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
80
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Jersey City and the region
Centroid at 40.7441, -74.0440 · click any tract to drill in
Why The Heights scores 7.8
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
20.1% poverty · this tract
5.0
Supply constraint
$1,843 rent vs county FMR
3.0
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: 59
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 77%Racial/ethnic minority
- 64%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
- 3%Grade C
- 59%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)
- 281Total filings over 4 yrs
- 6.37%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.9%Peak (2014)
- 69Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 24% 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
- 7.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.6%Food insecurity
- 8.5%SNAP enrollment
- 8.1%Transit barriers
- 13.3%No health insurance
- 15.3%Frequent mental distress
- 22.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in The Heights
The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.
The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The filing record is not thin: 281 evictions over 4 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2014, when 7.9% of renter households were served.
At $1,843 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Jersey City commands. 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 6.4% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 6.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34017000800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017000800?
Census tract 34017000800 in the The Heights neighborhood scores 7.8/10 (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 34017000800?
Median gross rent is $1,843/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34017000800?
20.1% of residents in tract 34017000800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,944.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34017000800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 59th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 73th, household 8th, minority 77th, housing 64th.
Q5
Is tract 34017000800 considered part of The Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34017000800 fall within The Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017000800?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 281 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017000800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.37% of renter households, peaking at 7.9% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34017000800 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. 7.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34017000800 compare to Jersey City overall?
Tract 34017000800 scores 7.8/10, right in line with 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 34017000800 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. 59% 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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