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Neighborhood · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally

Bonhamtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Metuchen

Tract 34023001701 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 5,696 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

With a score of 4.5/10, tract 34023001701 in the Bonhamtown area of Middlesex County, NJ reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,696 residents. 32% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 65% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 2% Stable renters 3% Owners 95%
Tract context
Occupied units1,891
Renter share5.6%
SVI overall0.16
Poverty rate5.5%
Median income$133,619

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Bonhamtown
Moderate
Within county
30 th percentile
Rank, 30th percentileLowHigh
#134 of 192 tracts In Middlesex County
Low
Within state
24 th percentile
Rank, 24th percentileLowHigh
#1,645 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Low
National
51 th percentile
Rank, 51st percentileLowHigh
#41,206 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Metuchen and the region

Centroid at 40.5228, -74.3770 · click any tract to drill in

Why Bonhamtown scores 4.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Metuchen
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
5.5% poverty · this tract
1.4
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Metuchen
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Metuchen
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Metuchen
5.0

How Bonhamtown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Bonhamtown risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.5This tracttract 0017016.0Metuchenparent city5.7Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 16

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 10Total filings over 1 yrs
  • 4.22%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.2%Peak (2015)
  • 10Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Bonhamtown. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Bonhamtown

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.4/10. Against the Middlesex County average of 5.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points.

SNAP participation runs 6.0% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 10 filings here across 1 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2015 at 4.2% of renter households.

In a typical year about 4.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 6% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.5 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Model confidence here is 65%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 34023001701

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34023001701?

Census tract 34023001701 in the Bonhamtown neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (Moderate 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 poverty rate in tract 34023001701?

5.5% of residents in tract 34023001701 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,696.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 34023001701?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 16th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 19th, household 61th, minority 69th, housing 3th.
Q4

Is tract 34023001701 considered part of Bonhamtown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34023001701 fall within Bonhamtown (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34023001701?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 10 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 34023001701 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.22% of renter households, peaking at 4.2% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 34023001701 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.9% 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. 5.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 34023001701 compare to Metuchen overall?

Tract 34023001701 scores 4.5/10, lower than the parent city of Metuchen at 6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Metuchen; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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