McGinley Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , Jersey City
Tract 34017005300 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 4,102 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi
Census tract 34017005300 sits in the McGinley Square area of Jersey City eviction risk, New Jersey eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 7.3/10. That is riskier than about 97% of US census tracts.
About 59% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 41% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,572 monthly, set against $58,306 in average yearly household income, roughly 32% of income at the averages. Renters make up 72% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Jersey City and the region
Centroid at 40.7041, -74.0757 · click any tract to drill in
Why McGinley Square scores 7.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow McGinley Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 89%Socioeconomic
- 86%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 73%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
- 0%Grade B
- 45%Grade C
- 29%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)
- 526Total filings over 4 yrs
- 19.93%Avg annual filing rate
- 24.2%Peak (2014)
- 108Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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.
- 23.6%Housing insecurity
- 14.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 28.3%Food insecurity
- 20.1%SNAP enrollment
- 13.8%Transit barriers
- 15.6%No health insurance
- 17.6%Frequent mental distress
- 30.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in McGinley Square
The score leans hardest on 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.
Part of this tract, about 29% 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.
The tract is Black and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 91st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 34017005300
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