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Neighborhood · Ranked #4,622 of 84,120 nationally

East Ferry Eviction Risk: High , Harrison

Tract 34017013500 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 5,520 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Census tract 34017013500 covers part of the East Ferry area of Harrison, NJ, and scores 8.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,520 residents. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.9/10.

Risk score
8.8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 40% Stable renters 45% Owners 15%
Tract context
Occupied units1,932
Renter share85.4%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate15.7%
Median income$57,708

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In East Ferry
Very High
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 5 tracts In Harrison
Very High
Within county
81 th percentile
Rank, 81st percentileLowHigh
#35 of 183 tracts In Hudson County
High
Within state
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#210 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Harrison and the region

Centroid at 40.7506, -74.1506 · click any tract to drill in

Why East Ferry scores 8.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Harrison
7.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
15.7% poverty · this tract
3.9
Supply constraint
$1,626 rent vs county FMR
2.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Harrison
5.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Harrison
9.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Harrison
6.1

How East Ferry compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
East Ferry risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.8This tracttract 0135007.9Harrisonparent city7.7Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 87

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 141Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 2.61%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.8%Peak (2018)
  • 38Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2014 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34017013500
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within East Ferry. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in East Ferry

85% 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. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $57,708, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. At $1,626 a month, rents run 27% under what the rest of Harrison commands.

The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.1/10.

Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. The filing record is not thin: 141 evictions over 4 years of observation.

Adults with no health insurance runs 19.4% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2018 at 2.8% of renter households. 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.

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 34017013500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017013500?

Census tract 34017013500 in the East Ferry neighborhood scores 8.8/10 (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 34017013500?

Median gross rent is $1,626/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34017013500?

15.7% of residents in tract 34017013500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,520.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34017013500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 71th, minority 86th, housing 79th.
Q5

Is tract 34017013500 considered part of East Ferry?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34017013500 fall within East Ferry (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017013500?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 141 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017013500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.61% of renter households, peaking at 2.8% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 34017013500 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.2% 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. 10.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 34017013500 compare to Harrison overall?

Tract 34017013500 scores 8.8/10, higher than the parent city of Harrison at 7.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Harrison eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 34017013500 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. 76% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Harrison

Top eight tracts in Harrison ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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