Hopelawn Eviction Risk: High , Perth Amboy
Tract 34023004200 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 3,307 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
With a score of 7.8/10, tract 34023004200 in Hopelawn in Perth Amboy ranks in the Elevated tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 3,307 residents. That puts it among the highest-scoring tracts in the entire country, the top 1% nationally for landlord eviction difficulty.
78% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 45% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,620 monthly, set against $69,033 in average yearly household income, roughly 28% of income at the averages. About 38% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Perth Amboy and the region
Centroid at 40.5229, -74.2784 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hopelawn scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Hopelawn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 40%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)
- 33Total filings over 1 yrs
- 6.60%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.6%Peak (2015)
- 33Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Hopelawn. 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.
- 26.2%Housing insecurity
- 13.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 32.1%Food insecurity
- 18.8%SNAP enrollment
- 14.6%Transit barriers
- 29.6%No health insurance
- 17.1%Frequent mental distress
- 34.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Hopelawn
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 9.8/10. 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 Perth Amboy eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Middlesex County average of 6.4 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 26.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 13.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 77th 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 34023004200
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Highest-risk tracts in Perth Amboy
Top eight tracts in Perth Amboy ranked by composite eviction-risk score.