Within neighborhood
63
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #13,812 of 84,120 nationally
Downtown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Hoboken
Tract 34017018301 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 2,632 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 34017018301 covers part of the Downtown area of Hoboken, NJ, and scores 6.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. The dominant input is supply constraint at 10/10.
Risk score
6.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23%
Stable renters 38%
Owners 39%
Tract context
Occupied units1,218
Renter share60.4%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate2.1%
Median income$250,001
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
27
th percentile
Low
Within county
24
th percentile
Low
Within state
68
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Hoboken and the region
Centroid at 40.7360, -74.0269 · click any tract to drill in
Why Downtown scores 6.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Hoboken
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
2.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$3,501 rent vs county FMR
10.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Hoboken
8.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Hoboken
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Hoboken
7.5
How Downtown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 1%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 54%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 0%Grade C
- 8%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 30Total filings over 4 yrs
- 0.99%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.4%Peak (2014)
- 6Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 33% over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Downtown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 5.1%Housing insecurity
- 2.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 4.8%Food insecurity
- 2.0%SNAP enrollment
- 3.4%Transit barriers
- 4.3%No health insurance
- 12.1%Frequent mental distress
- 12.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Downtown
The voucher gap is 52.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10.
On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. 38% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Hudson County average of 46.5%. Food insecurity runs 4.8% against 17.8% nationally.
Average gross rent is $3,501, 19% above the Hoboken average. The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. Court records carry 30 eviction filings across 4 observed years.
Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2014 at 1.4% of renter households.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34017018301
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017018301?
Census tract 34017018301 in the Downtown neighborhood scores 6.8/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 34017018301?
Median gross rent is $3,501/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34017018301?
2.1% of residents in tract 34017018301 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,632.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34017018301?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 1th, household 1th, minority 54th, housing 46th.
Q5
Is tract 34017018301 considered part of Downtown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34017018301 fall within Downtown (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017018301?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 30 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017018301 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.99% of renter households, peaking at 1.4% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34017018301 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.1% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 2.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34017018301 compare to Hoboken overall?
Tract 34017018301 scores 6.8/10, lower than the parent city of Hoboken at 8.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Hoboken eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 34017018301 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 8% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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