Chambersburg Eviction Risk: High , Trenton
Tract 34021000400 · Mercer County, NJ · pop 6,208 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 34021000400 (Chambersburg in Trenton, New Jersey) comes in at 7.9/10, the Elevated tier. That puts it among the highest-scoring tracts in the entire country, the top 1% nationally for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 74% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 43% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,422 monthly, set against $39,675 in average yearly household income, roughly 43% of income at the averages. About 81% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Trenton and the region
Centroid at 40.2070, -74.7467 · click any tract to drill in
Why Chambersburg scores 9.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Chambersburg compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 83%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 97%Grade C
- 0%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.
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)
- 1,397Total filings over 6 yrs
- 21.43%Avg annual filing rate
- 24.2%Peak (2014)
- 212Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Chambersburg. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 41.6%Housing insecurity
- 26.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 52.7%Food insecurity
- 42.7%SNAP enrollment
- 25.4%Transit barriers
- 40.0%No health insurance
- 21.5%Frequent mental distress
- 38.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Chambersburg
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.3/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Trenton eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Mercer County average of 6.7 and above the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 41.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 26.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 85th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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Highest-risk tracts in Trenton
Top eight tracts in Trenton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.