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Neighborhood · Ranked #34,332 of 84,120 nationally

Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hoboken

Tract 34017019100 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 3,695 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 34017019100 belongs to Downtown in Hoboken, New Jersey. It is home to 3,695 residents and scores 6.6/10, an elevated reading for landlords. That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

About 29% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a moderate level, and 21% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $2,061 a month against an average household income of $134,083 a year, roughly 18% of income at the averages. Renters make up 68% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
4.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20% Stable renters 48% Owners 32%
Tract context
Occupied units2,027
Renter share67.8%
SVI overall0.54
Poverty rate9.2%
Median income$134,083

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#4 of 9 tracts In Downtown
Elevated
Within parent city
73 th percentile
Rank, 73rd percentileLowHigh
#5 of 16 tracts In Hoboken
Elevated
Within county
8 th percentile
Rank, 8th percentileLowHigh
#168 of 183 tracts In Hudson County
Very Low
Within state
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#849 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Hoboken and the region

Centroid at 40.7399, -74.0371 · click any tract to drill in

Why Downtown scores 4.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
9.2% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$2,061 rent vs county FMR
4.0
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.
Downtown risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 4.44.4This tracttract 019100Hoboken: 8.18.1Hobokenparent cityCounty: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 4.34.3Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 54

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 168Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 3.71%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.1%Peak (2017)
  • 36Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2014 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 340170191002014: 34 filings (2.31/100 renter HHs)2016: 43 filings (4.01/100 renter HHs)2017: 55 filings (5.14/100 renter HHs)2018: 36 filings (3.36/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Downtown

What moves this score most is rent-control risk at 8.5/10. 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 Hoboken eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Hudson County average of 7.0 and in line with the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 100% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

In CDC survey modeling, about 9.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.3% 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 34017019100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017019100?

Census tract 34017019100 in the Downtown neighborhood scores 4.4/10 (Moderate 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 34017019100?

Median gross rent is $2,061/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 29% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34017019100?

9.2% of residents in tract 34017019100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,695.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34017019100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 54th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 43th, household 19th, minority 56th, housing 86th.
Q5

Is tract 34017019100 considered part of Downtown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34017019100 fall within Downtown (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017019100?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 168 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017019100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.71% of renter households, peaking at 5.1% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 34017019100 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.3% 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. 5.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 34017019100 compare to Hoboken overall?

Tract 34017019100 scores 4.4/10, lower than the parent city of Hoboken at 8.1/10. 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 34017019100 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Hoboken

Top eight tracts in Hoboken ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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