East Trenton Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34021001900 · Mercer County, NJ · pop 1,737 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
For landlords sizing up East Trenton in Trenton, census tract 34021001900 carries a high eviction-risk score of $1/10. 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.
70% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 60% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is about $987 a month. About 70% 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 40.2320, -74.7458 · click any tract to drill in
Why East Trenton scores 8.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow East Trenton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 87%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 99%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
- 47%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)
- 538Total filings over 6 yrs
- 33.10%Avg annual filing rate
- 42.0%Peak (2016)
- 81Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within East Trenton. 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.
- 41.0%Housing insecurity
- 29.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 53.5%Food insecurity
- 47.6%SNAP enrollment
- 26.0%Transit barriers
- 30.9%No health insurance
- 21.7%Frequent mental distress
- 40.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in East Trenton
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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 41.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 29.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 47% 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.
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 34021001900
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Highest-risk tracts in Trenton
Top eight tracts in Trenton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.