Robinvale Eviction Risk: Lower , Metuchen
Tract 34023002101 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 2,224 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
The Robinvale neighborhood of Metuchen is where census tract 34023002101 sits, home to 2,224 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 5.7/10. That is riskier than about 64% of US census tracts.
17% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a modest level, and 9% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $2,750 a month while the average household earns $219,250 a year, roughly 15% of income at the averages. Renters make up 10% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Metuchen and the region
Centroid at 40.5481, -74.3598 · click any tract to drill in
Why Robinvale scores 2.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Robinvale compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 6
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 2%Socioeconomic
- 28%Household composition
- 41%Racial/ethnic minority
- 11%Housing & transportation
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)
- 9Total filings over 1 yrs
- 8.65%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.7%Peak (2015)
- 9Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Robinvale. 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.
- 5.3%Housing insecurity
- 3.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.1%Food insecurity
- 2.3%SNAP enrollment
- 3.4%Transit barriers
- 4.6%No health insurance
- 11.4%Frequent mental distress
- 17.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Robinvale
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 7.6/10. 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 Metuchen, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Middlesex County average of 6.4 and below the New Jersey statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 6th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
In CDC survey modeling, about 5.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 3.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 34023002101
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Highest-risk tracts in Metuchen
Top eight tracts in Metuchen ranked by composite eviction-risk score.