Cadwalader Heights Eviction Risk: High , Trenton
Tract 34021001401 · Mercer County, NJ · pop 3,717 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
The Cadwalader Heights area of Trenton anchors census tract 34021001401, which lands at $1/10 on landlord eviction risk. That ranks it in the top 1% of US census tracts for landlord eviction risk, among the very hardest places in the country to operate.
About 58% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 33% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $661 monthly, set against $22,112 in average yearly household income, roughly 36% of income at the averages. Renters make up 83% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Trenton and the region
Centroid at 40.2357, -74.7744 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cadwalader Heights scores 9.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Cadwalader Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 86%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 61%Grade B
- 1%Grade C
- 1%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)
- 3,941Total filings over 6 yrs
- 48.52%Avg annual filing rate
- 52.3%Peak (2014)
- 622Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Cadwalader Heights. 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.
- 38.8%Housing insecurity
- 30.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 50.7%Food insecurity
- 50.1%SNAP enrollment
- 25.9%Transit barriers
- 18.1%No health insurance
- 22.1%Frequent mental distress
- 41.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Cadwalader Heights
What moves this score most 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.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 3,941 eviction filings here over 6 tracked years, with about 48.5% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 52.3% of renter households in 2014.
Part of this tract, about 1% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was B ("Still Desirable"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
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 34021001401
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