The Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Jersey City
Tract 34017001000 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 1,964 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 34017001000 (The Heights in Jersey City, New Jersey) comes in at 7.1/10, the Elevated tier. That is riskier than about 96% of US census tracts.
42% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 22% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,741 a month while the average household earns $82,784 a year, roughly 25% of income at the averages. About 69% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Jersey City and the region
Centroid at 40.7447, -74.0590 · click any tract to drill in
Why The Heights scores 6.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow The Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 70
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 63%Socioeconomic
- 52%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 7%Grade B
- 57%Grade C
- 36%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.
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)
- 91Total filings over 4 yrs
- 4.26%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.5%Peak (2014)
- 13Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within The Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.3%Housing insecurity
- 5.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.9%Food insecurity
- 7.0%SNAP enrollment
- 7.0%Transit barriers
- 11.6%No health insurance
- 13.2%Frequent mental distress
- 21.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in The Heights
The heaviest input here is rent-control risk at 8.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Jersey City eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Hudson County average of 7.0 and above the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 11.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
Part of this tract, about 36% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 34017001000
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