Within neighborhood
17
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #13,812 of 84,120 nationally
Uptown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Hoboken
Tract 34017018600 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 2,551 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 6.8/10, tract 34017018600 in the Uptown area of Hoboken, NJ reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,551. Against Hudson County at 46.5%, 33% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
6.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 32%
Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units1,127
Renter share47.7%
SVI overall0.10
Poverty rate5.2%
Median income$150,417
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
20
th percentile
Low
Within county
23
th percentile
Low
Within state
68
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Hoboken and the region
Centroid at 40.7469, -74.0302 · click any tract to drill in
Why Uptown 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
5.2% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$2,274 rent vs county FMR
4.9
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 Uptown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 10
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 3%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 39%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%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
- 100%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)
- 25Total filings over 4 yrs
- 0.91%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.8%Peak (2016)
- 1Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 83% over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Uptown. 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.
- 6.6%Housing insecurity
- 3.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.5%Food insecurity
- 3.1%SNAP enrollment
- 4.5%Transit barriers
- 5.9%No health insurance
- 14.5%Frequent mental distress
- 15.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Uptown
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.3/10. The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 15.7% against 31.5% nationally.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. Average gross rent is $2,274, 23% below the Hoboken average. Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 25 filings here across 4 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2016, when 1.8% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 0.9% of renter households face a filing.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 34017018600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017018600?
Census tract 34017018600 in the Uptown 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 34017018600?
Median gross rent is $2,274/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34017018600?
5.2% of residents in tract 34017018600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,551.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34017018600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 10th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 3th, household 2th, minority 39th, housing 65th.
Q5
Is tract 34017018600 considered part of Uptown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34017018600 fall within Uptown (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017018600?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 25 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017018600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.91% of renter households, peaking at 1.8% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34017018600 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.6% 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. 3.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34017018600 compare to Hoboken overall?
Tract 34017018600 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 34017018600 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. 100% 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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Highest-risk tracts in Hoboken
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/ 10 · High
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7.5
/ 10 · High
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7.2
/ 10 · Elevated
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7.1
/ 10 · Elevated
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6.8
/ 10 · Elevated
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6.8
/ 10 · Elevated
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