New Brunswick Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34023005700 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 6,191
Census tract 34023005700 covers New Brunswick in Middlesex County, home to 6,191 residents. For landlords it grades 7.8/10, an elevated reading. That puts it among the highest-scoring tracts in the entire country, the top 1% nationally for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 44% of renter households, a severe level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,736 monthly, set against $52,083 in average yearly household income, roughly 40% of income at the averages. About 58% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across New Brunswick and the region
Centroid at 40.4797, -74.4492 · click any tract to drill in
Why New Brunswick scores 8.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow New Brunswick compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 96
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%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)
- 71Total filings over 1 yrs
- 6.51%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.5%Peak (2015)
- 71Filings 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.
- 30.9%Housing insecurity
- 17.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 39.2%Food insecurity
- 26.8%SNAP enrollment
- 18.3%Transit barriers
- 32.2%No health insurance
- 19.2%Frequent mental distress
- 37.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in New Brunswick
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 9.9/10. 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 New Brunswick 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 30.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 17.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 71 eviction filings here over 1 tracked years, with about 6.5% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 6.5% of renter households in 2015.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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Highest-risk tracts in New Brunswick
Top eight tracts in New Brunswick ranked by composite eviction-risk score.