New Brunswick Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34023005300 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 3,700
With a score of 9.7/10, tract 34023005300 in New Brunswick, NJ reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,700. It sits 4.0 points above the Middlesex County average of 5.7.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across New Brunswick and the region
Centroid at 40.4920, -74.4539 · click any tract to drill in
Why New Brunswick scores 9.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow New Brunswick compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 71%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%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)
- 27Total filings over 1 yrs
- 5.13%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.1%Peak (2015)
- 27Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 32.5%Housing insecurity
- 17.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 42.5%Food insecurity
- 27.4%SNAP enrollment
- 20.9%Transit barriers
- 34.5%No health insurance
- 22.2%Frequent mental distress
- 37.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in New Brunswick
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.9/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 34.5% against 11.3% nationally.
The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9/10. 82% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.
Set annual rent against average income of $59,955 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Housing insecurity runs 32.5% against 14.2% nationally. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.7/10.
The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Middlesex County average of 44.9%. The filing record is not thin: 27 evictions over 1 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2015 at 5.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.1% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #2,339 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 34023005300
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Top eight tracts in New Brunswick ranked by composite eviction-risk score.