Lincoln Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , West New York
Tract 34017015201 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,003 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
With a score of 6.7/10, tract 34017015201 in the Lincoln Square area of West New York, NJ reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,003 residents. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.9/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across West New York and the region
Centroid at 40.7865, -74.0000 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lincoln Square scores 6.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Lincoln Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 18
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 11%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 74%Racial/ethnic minority
- 48%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
- 12%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.
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)
- 45Total filings over 4 yrs
- 1.80%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.8%Peak (2016)
- 8Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Lincoln 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.
- 7.7%Housing insecurity
- 4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.8%Food insecurity
- 4.0%SNAP enrollment
- 4.7%Transit barriers
- 7.2%No health insurance
- 11.9%Frequent mental distress
- 18.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Lincoln Square
Average gross rent is $3,119, 82% above the West New York average. The voucher gap is 35.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 8.6/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Disability prevalence runs 18.6% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Food insecurity runs 8.8% against 17.8% nationally.
Cost burden runs 42% here against 46.5% across Hudson County. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 45 filings here across 4 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2016 at 2.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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. In a typical year about 1.8% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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