Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #13,812 of 84,120 nationally
Uptown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Hoboken
Tract 34017018701 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,280 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 34017018701 sits in the Uptown area of Hoboken eviction risk, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.8/10. It is home to 3,280 residents. Against Hudson County at 46.5%, 29% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
6.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 47%
Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units790
Renter share66.8%
SVI overall0.10
Poverty rate7.7%
Median income$152,500
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
47
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
24
th percentile
Low
Within state
68
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Hoboken and the region
Centroid at 40.7445, -74.0265 · 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
7.7% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$2,680 rent vs county FMR
6.7
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.
- 8%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 56%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%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
- 95%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)
- 22Total filings over 4 yrs
- 1.22%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.6%Peak (2014)
- 5Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 38% 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.
- 10.5%Housing insecurity
- 5.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.8%Food insecurity
- 4.7%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 7.9%No health insurance
- 18.2%Frequent mental distress
- 18.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Uptown
The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.9/10.
SNAP participation runs 4.7% against 15.2% nationally. The voucher gap is 16.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Against the Hudson County average of 7.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. Court records carry 22 eviction filings across 4 observed years.
Food insecurity runs 10.8% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2014, when 1.6% of renter households were served.
At $2,680 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Hoboken commands. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Hudson Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 1.2% 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 34017018701
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017018701?
Census tract 34017018701 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 34017018701?
Median gross rent is $2,680/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 29% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34017018701?
7.7% of residents in tract 34017018701 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,280.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34017018701?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 10th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 8th, household 0th, minority 56th, housing 84th.
Q5
Is tract 34017018701 considered part of Uptown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34017018701 fall within Uptown (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017018701?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 22 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017018701 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.22% of renter households, peaking at 1.6% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34017018701 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.5% 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. 5.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34017018701 compare to Hoboken overall?
Tract 34017018701 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 34017018701 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. 95% 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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