McGinley Square Eviction Risk: High , Jersey City
Tract 34017004104 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,478 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 34017004104 covers part of the McGinley Square area of Jersey City, NJ, and scores 8.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,478. 84% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Jersey City and the region
Centroid at 40.7230, -74.0752 · click any tract to drill in
Why McGinley Square scores 8.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow McGinley Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 80
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 21%Household composition
- 79%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 52%Grade B
- 48%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within McGinley Square. 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.
- 15.4%Housing insecurity
- 9.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.7%Food insecurity
- 11.0%SNAP enrollment
- 9.3%Transit barriers
- 13.1%No health insurance
- 15.1%Frequent mental distress
- 24.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in McGinley Square
What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10. The severe-burden share is 21%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.9/10.
At $1,588 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Jersey City commands. Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Hudson 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. That is riskier than roughly 95% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.2/10. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 2.9 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
Rent takes 30% or more of income for 48% of renters. Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $68,517.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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