Lamberton Eviction Risk: High , Trenton
Tract 34021001000 · Mercer County, NJ · pop 3,051 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Eviction risk in the Lamberton neighborhood of Trenton centers on tract 34021001000, which scores $1/10 (High tier) and is home to 3,051 residents. That puts it among the highest-scoring tracts in the entire country, the top 1% nationally for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 62% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 35% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $569 monthly, set against $29,167 in average yearly household income, roughly 23% of income at the averages. About 78% 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 40.2108, -74.7643 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lamberton scores 9.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Lamberton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 100%Housing & transportation
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
- 58%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)
- 1,497Total filings over 6 yrs
- 30.73%Avg annual filing rate
- 37.1%Peak (2014)
- 274Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Lamberton. 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.
- 36.1%Housing insecurity
- 25.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 47.9%Food insecurity
- 42.1%SNAP enrollment
- 23.2%Transit barriers
- 28.6%No health insurance
- 19.9%Frequent mental distress
- 40.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Lamberton
The heaviest input here is economic stress at $1/10. 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 36.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 25.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 1,497 eviction filings here over 6 tracked years, with about 30.7% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 37.1% of renter households in 2014.
For a landlord underwriting a deal here, treat timelines and legal costs as the real risk: Trenton eviction risk sits in territory where contested cases drag and tenant defenses are well organized, so airtight notices and screening matter more than usual.
About tract 34021001000
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Highest-risk tracts in Trenton
Top eight tracts in Trenton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.