Woodbridge Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34023002902 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 2,996 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 34023002902 covers the Woodbridge area of Woodbridge in New Jersey. Home to 2,996 residents, it scores 6.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than about 87% of US census tracts.
41% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 16% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,923 monthly, set against $84,201 in average yearly household income, roughly 27% of income at the averages. Renters make up 56% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Woodbridge and the region
Centroid at 40.5566, -74.2793 · click any tract to drill in
Why Woodbridge scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Woodbridge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 91%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 58%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)
- 40Total filings over 1 yrs
- 6.60%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.6%Peak (2015)
- 40Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Woodbridge. 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.
- 14.7%Housing insecurity
- 7.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.2%Food insecurity
- 9.8%SNAP enrollment
- 8.7%Transit barriers
- 15.0%No health insurance
- 15.6%Frequent mental distress
- 28.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Woodbridge
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 8.9/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Woodbridge eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Middlesex County average of 6.4 and in line with 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 40 eviction filings here over 1 tracked years, with about 6.6% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 6.6% of renter households in 2015.
The tract is Hispanic or Latino and White and ranks around the 91st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 34023002902
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Highest-risk tracts in Woodbridge
Top eight tracts in Woodbridge ranked by composite eviction-risk score.