Within parent city
66
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #5,413 of 84,120 nationally
Jersey City Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34017006300 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 4,247
Census tract 34017006300 covers part of Jersey City, NJ, and scores 8.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10.
Risk score
8.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 25%
Stable renters 45%
Owners 30%
Tract context
Occupied units1,868
Renter share70.2%
SVI overall0.71
Poverty rate14.5%
Median income$70,434
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
74
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
87
th percentile
High
National
94
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Jersey City and the region
Centroid at 40.6909, -74.0922 · click any tract to drill in
Why Jersey City scores 8.5
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
14.5% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$1,340 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Jersey City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 71
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 81%Socioeconomic
- 57%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 38%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 58%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.
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)
- 726Total filings over 4 yrs
- 16.26%Avg annual filing rate
- 18.3%Peak (2014)
- 165Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 17% over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 22.1%Housing insecurity
- 12.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 28.0%Food insecurity
- 18.0%SNAP enrollment
- 13.3%Transit barriers
- 19.0%No health insurance
- 17.3%Frequent mental distress
- 32.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Jersey City
Average gross rent is $1,340, 33% below the Jersey City average. around a third of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Hudson County average of 46.5%. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.
This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Food insecurity runs 28.0% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 726 eviction filings across 4 observed years. Housing insecurity runs 22.1% against 14.2% nationally.
It sits 0.8 points above the Hudson County average of 7.7. Filings peaked in 2014 at 18.3% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 34017006300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017006300?
Census tract 34017006300 in Jersey City scores 8.5/10 (High 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 34017006300?
Median gross rent is $1,340/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34017006300?
14.5% of residents in tract 34017006300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,247.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34017006300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 71th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 81th, household 57th, minority 90th, housing 38th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017006300?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 726 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017006300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 16.26% of renter households, peaking at 18.3% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34017006300 struggle to pay rent?
About 22.1% 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. 12.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34017006300 compare to Jersey City overall?
Tract 34017006300 scores 8.5/10, higher 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.
Q8
Was tract 34017006300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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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9.4
/ 10 · Very High
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/ 10 · Very High
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/ 10 · Very High
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/ 10 · Very High
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