The Shades Eviction Risk: Elevated , Union City
Tract 34017017500 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 4,479 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 34017017500, home to 4,479 residents in the The Shades area of Union City, scores 6.9/10 for landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 93rd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
51% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 21% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,636 monthly, set against $73,783 in average yearly household income, roughly 27% of income at the averages. About 84% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Union City and the region
Centroid at 40.7587, -74.0376 · click any tract to drill in
Why The Shades scores 7.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow The Shades compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 49%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 72%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
- 100%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)
- 565Total filings over 4 yrs
- 12.49%Avg annual filing rate
- 20.0%Peak (2014)
- 113Filings 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.
- 25.2%Housing insecurity
- 13.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 32.1%Food insecurity
- 18.7%SNAP enrollment
- 14.4%Transit barriers
- 29.7%No health insurance
- 16.7%Frequent mental distress
- 32.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in The Shades
The score leans hardest on 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 about the same as 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 safer side for landlords.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
In CDC survey modeling, about 25.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 13.3% 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 34017017500
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