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Census Tract · Ranked #2,438 of 84,120 nationally

Tract 34017014501 Eviction Risk: Elevated

Tract 34017014501 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 5,188

Hudson is where census tract 34017014501 sits, home to 5,188 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 6.9/10. That is riskier than about 93% of US census tracts.

About 56% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 30% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,440 monthly, set against $62,074 in average yearly household income, roughly 28% of income at the averages. About 62% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35% Stable renters 27% Owners 38%
Tract context
Occupied units2,158
Renter share62.0%
SVI overall0.74
Poverty rate25.9%
Median income$62,074

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within county
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#34 of 183 tracts In Hudson County
High
Within state
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#230 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
High
National
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#2,438 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Hudson County and the region

Centroid at 40.7990, -74.0188 · click any tract to drill in

Why Tract 34017014501 scores 7.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
State baseline
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
25.9% poverty · this tract
6.5
Supply constraint
$1,440 rent vs county FMR
1.3
Rent control risk
State baseline
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
State baseline
4.0
Housing court bias
State baseline
5.0

How Tract 34017014501 compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Tract 34017014501 risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.87.8This tracttract 014501County: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 4.34.3Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 74

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)

  • 238Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 4.95%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.3%Peak (2018)
  • 63Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2014 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 340170145012014: 60 filings (4.84/100 renter HHs)2016: 59 filings (4.95/100 renter HHs)2017: 56 filings (4.70/100 renter HHs)2018: 63 filings (5.29/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Tract 34017014501

The score leans hardest on rent-control risk at 6.8/10. 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 set by New Jersey eviction laws law, 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 safer side for landlords.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 100% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

In CDC survey modeling, about 21.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 11.3% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.

Frequently asked

About tract 34017014501

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017014501?

Census tract 34017014501 in Hudson County scores 7.8/10 (Elevated 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 34017014501?

Median gross rent is $1,440/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34017014501?

25.9% of residents in tract 34017014501 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,188.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34017014501?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 74th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 71th, household 78th, minority 88th, housing 47th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017014501?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 238 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017014501 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.95% of renter households, peaking at 5.3% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 34017014501 struggle to pay rent?

About 21.9% 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. 11.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

Was tract 34017014501 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. 100% 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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