Hopelawn Eviction Risk: Elevated , Perth Amboy
Tract 34023004700 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 4,006 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Tract 34023004700, home to 4,006 residents in Hopelawn in Perth Amboy, scores 7.6/10 for landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 99th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 65% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 29% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,738 a month against an average household income of $67,708 a year, roughly 31% of income at the averages. Renters make up 72% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Perth Amboy and the region
Centroid at 40.5166, -74.2806 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hopelawn scores 7.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Hopelawn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 81%Household composition
- 85%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%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)
- 121Total filings over 1 yrs
- 14.27%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.3%Peak (2015)
- 121Filings 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.
- 27.2%Housing insecurity
- 14.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 32.7%Food insecurity
- 19.4%SNAP enrollment
- 15.0%Transit barriers
- 30.0%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 34.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Hopelawn
What moves this score most is 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.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 92nd 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 27.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 14.0% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 34023004700
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Highest-risk tracts in Perth Amboy
Top eight tracts in Perth Amboy ranked by composite eviction-risk score.