The Shades Eviction Risk: High , Union City
Tract 34017016800 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,671 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 34017016800 runs through the The Shades neighborhood of Union City. With 3,671 residents, it scores 7.5/10 for landlords. It lands near the 99th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 50% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 49% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,547 a month while the average household earns $65,192 a year, roughly 28% of income at the averages. Renters make up 88% 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 40.7704, -74.0304 · click any tract to drill in
Why The Shades scores 8.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow The Shades compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 89%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%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
- 36%Grade C
- 64%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)
- 319Total filings over 4 yrs
- 7.66%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.4%Peak (2014)
- 78Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within The Shades. 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.
- 32.3%Housing insecurity
- 19.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 44.0%Food insecurity
- 31.9%SNAP enrollment
- 20.3%Transit barriers
- 36.4%No health insurance
- 18.5%Frequent mental distress
- 39.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in The Shades
What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. 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 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.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 97th 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 32.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 19.4% 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 34017016800
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Highest-risk tracts in Union City
Top eight tracts in Union City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.