Neighborhood · Ranked #4,119 of 84,120 nationally

The Shades Eviction Risk: High , Union City

Tract 34017014801 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 4,755 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

34017014801 is a census tract in the The Shades area of Hudson County, NJ. It scores 9/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,755 residents. Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

High

Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 38% Stable renters 35% Owners 27%

Tract context

Occupied units2,027

Renter share73.0%

SVI overall0.91

Poverty rate22.8%

Median income$48,242

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Union City and the region

Centroid at 40.7684, -74.0433 · click any tract to drill in

Why The Shades scores 9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Union City

6.8

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.3

State political climate

New Jersey legislature & governorship

6.8

Economic stress

22.8% poverty · this tract

5.7

Supply constraint

$1,193 rent vs county FMR

1.0

Rent control risk

Inherited from Union City

6.8

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

5.0

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Union City

4.0

Housing court bias

Inherited from Union City

5.0

How The Shades compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 91

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

88%Socioeconomic
73%Household composition
86%Racial/ethnic minority
89%Housing & transportation

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.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
0%Grade C
59%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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within The Shades. 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.

23.5%Housing insecurity
13.6%Utility-shutoff threat
31.6%Food insecurity
20.4%SNAP enrollment
14.4%Transit barriers
25.7%No health insurance
16.4%Frequent mental distress
34.8%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in The Shades

Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 25.7% against 11.3% nationally. Food insecurity runs 31.6% against 17.8% nationally.

Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 53% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Hudson County average of 46.5%.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.3/10. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.

Nationally it ranks #4,119 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.2/10. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 3.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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 34017014801

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017014801?

Census tract 34017014801 in the The Shades neighborhood scores 9/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 34017014801?

Median gross rent is $1,193/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 34017014801?

22.8% of residents in tract 34017014801 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,755.

How socially vulnerable is tract 34017014801?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 91th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 88th, household 73th, minority 86th, housing 89th.

Is tract 34017014801 considered part of The Shades?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34017014801 fall within The Shades (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 34017014801 struggle to pay rent?

About 23.5% 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. 13.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 34017014801 compare to Union City overall?

Tract 34017014801 scores 9/10, higher than the parent city of Union City at 6.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Union City eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 34017014801 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. 59% 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.