Lincoln Harbor Eviction Risk: Elevated , Union City
Tract 34017016600 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,498 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
In the Lincoln Harbor neighborhood of Union City, census tract 34017016600 scores 6.5/10 for eviction risk. It lands near the 87th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
54% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 29% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,315 a month against an average household income of $45,583 a year, roughly 35% of income at the averages. Renters make up 81% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Union City and the region
Centroid at 40.7752, -74.0294 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lincoln Harbor scores 7.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Lincoln Harbor compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 94
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 58%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%Housing & transportation
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
- 11%Grade C
- 89%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)
- 272Total filings over 4 yrs
- 5.58%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.0%Peak (2014)
- 62Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Lincoln Harbor. 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.
- 26.1%Housing insecurity
- 15.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.6%Food insecurity
- 23.0%SNAP enrollment
- 15.9%Transit barriers
- 28.6%No health insurance
- 16.8%Frequent mental distress
- 35.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Lincoln Harbor
What moves this score most is eviction process difficulty at 6.2/10. 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 Union City eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Hudson County average of 7.0 and in line with the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 94th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 26.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 15.2% 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.
About tract 34017016600
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Highest-risk tracts in Union City
Top eight tracts in Union City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.