Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #15,451 of 84,120 nationally
North Trenton Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34021003400 · Mercer County, NJ · pop 2,760 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 34021003400 sits in the North Trenton area of Mercer County, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.5/10. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.3/10.
Risk score
6.5
Elevated
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 9%
Owners 79%
Tract context
Occupied units951
Renter share20.9%
SVI overall0.58
Poverty rate20.3%
Median income$82,179
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
69
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
63
th percentile
Elevated
National
82
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Trenton and the region
Centroid at 40.2419, -74.7647 · click any tract to drill in
Why North Trenton scores 6.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Trenton
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
20.3% poverty · this tract
5.1
Supply constraint
$1,362 rent vs county FMR
1.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Trenton
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Trenton
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Trenton
5.0
How North Trenton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 57%Household composition
- 78%Racial/ethnic minority
- 18%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 36%Grade B
- 6%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.
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)
- 467Total filings over 6 yrs
- 46.43%Avg annual filing rate
- 48.3%Peak (2014)
- 82Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 6 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within North Trenton. 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.
- 23.7%Housing insecurity
- 15.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 27.3%Food insecurity
- 20.0%SNAP enrollment
- 13.4%Transit barriers
- 14.3%No health insurance
- 17.5%Frequent mental distress
- 28.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in North Trenton
Cost burden runs 57% here against 46.5% across Mercer County. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.7/10. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Housing insecurity runs 23.7% against 14.2% nationally. Court records carry 467 eviction filings across 6 observed years.
It sits 0.8 points above the Mercer County average of 5.7. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7/10.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2014 at 48.3% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
In a typical year about 46.4% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34021003400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34021003400?
Census tract 34021003400 in the North Trenton neighborhood scores 6.5/10 (Elevated 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 34021003400?
Median gross rent is $1,362/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34021003400?
20.3% of residents in tract 34021003400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,760.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34021003400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 58th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 75th, household 57th, minority 78th, housing 18th.
Q5
Is tract 34021003400 considered part of North Trenton?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34021003400 fall within North Trenton (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34021003400?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 467 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 34021003400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 46.43% of renter households, peaking at 48.3% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34021003400 struggle to pay rent?
About 23.7% 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. 15.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34021003400 compare to Trenton overall?
Tract 34021003400 scores 6.5/10, lower than the parent city of Trenton at 7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Trenton eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 34021003400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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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