West New York Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34017015600 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 4,334
The Elevated-tier score of 7.5/10 for census tract 34017015600 reflects conditions in West New York, New Jersey. That is riskier than roughly 99% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 58% of renter households, a severe level, and 34% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,613 a month while the average household earns $61,772 a year, roughly 31% of income at the averages. About 81% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across West New York and the region
Centroid at 40.7879, -74.0122 · click any tract to drill in
Why West New York scores 8.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West New York compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 87%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 95%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
- 83%Grade C
- 17%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)
- 401Total filings over 4 yrs
- 7.26%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.8%Peak (2014)
- 92Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 25.7%Housing insecurity
- 13.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.0%Food insecurity
- 21.3%SNAP enrollment
- 15.1%Transit barriers
- 30.7%No health insurance
- 16.4%Frequent mental distress
- 35.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in West New York
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 9.9/10. 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 inherited from West New York eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above 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 riskier side for landlords.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 401 eviction filings here over 4 tracked years, with about 7.3% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 10.8% of renter households in 2014.
Part of this tract, about 17% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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