Within parent city
90
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally
West New York Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34017032400 · Hudson County, NJ · pop 7,293
Tract 34017032400 sits in West New York eviction risk, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.5/10. Population here is 7,293. Severe burden reaches 50%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 54%
Stable renters 33%
Owners 13%
Tract context
Occupied units2,386
Renter share86.3%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate41.8%
Median income$32,642
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
98
th percentile
Very High
Within state
97
th percentile
Very High
National
97
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across West New York and the region
Centroid at 40.7928, -74.0135 · click any tract to drill in
Why West New York scores 9.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from West New York
7.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
41.8% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,467 rent vs county FMR
1.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from West New York
7.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from West New York
9.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from West New York
7.7
How West New York compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 75%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%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
- 35%Grade C
- 65%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)
- 391Total filings over 4 yrs
- 5.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.4%Peak (2014)
- 67Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 44% over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 36.5%Housing insecurity
- 22.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 52.1%Food insecurity
- 41.0%SNAP enrollment
- 24.1%Transit barriers
- 42.4%No health insurance
- 19.5%Frequent mental distress
- 46.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in West New York
Set annual rent against average income of $32,642 and the ratio lands at 54%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 42.4% against 11.3% nationally. Against Hudson County at 46.5%, 62% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.9/10.
The poverty rate is 42%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. It sits 1.8 points above the Hudson County average of 7.7.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.4/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The filing record is not thin: 391 evictions over 4 years of observation.
At $1,467 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of West New York commands. The worst year on record was 2014, when 6.4% of renter households were served.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34017032400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34017032400?
Census tract 34017032400 in West New York scores 9.5/10 (High 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 34017032400?
Median gross rent is $1,467/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34017032400?
41.8% of residents in tract 34017032400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,293.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34017032400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 100th, household 75th, minority 93th, housing 86th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34017032400?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 391 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34017032400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.39% of renter households, peaking at 6.4% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34017032400 struggle to pay rent?
About 36.5% 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. 22.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34017032400 compare to West New York overall?
Tract 34017032400 scores 9.5/10, higher than the parent city of West New York at 8.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from West New York eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34017032400 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. 65% 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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