Raritan Gardens Eviction Risk: High , New Brunswick
Tract 34023006002 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 7,125 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
The High-tier score of $1/10 for census tract 34023006002 reflects conditions in the Raritan Gardens neighborhood of New Brunswick, New Jersey. That puts it among the highest-scoring tracts in the entire country, the top 1% nationally for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 55% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 35% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,655 a month while the average household earns $56,060 a year, roughly 35% of income at the averages. About 88% 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 40.4836, -74.4297 · click any tract to drill in
Why Raritan Gardens scores 8.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Raritan Gardens compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 15%Household composition
- 76%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%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)
- 290Total filings over 1 yrs
- 27.15%Avg annual filing rate
- 27.2%Peak (2015)
- 290Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Raritan Gardens. 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.
- 18.9%Housing insecurity
- 10.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 25.4%Food insecurity
- 14.0%SNAP enrollment
- 14.8%Transit barriers
- 14.4%No health insurance
- 22.4%Frequent mental distress
- 28.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Raritan Gardens
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 well 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.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 290 eviction filings here over 1 tracked years, with about 27.2% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 27.2% of renter households in 2015.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 88th 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 underwriting a deal here, treat timelines and legal costs as the real risk: New Brunswick eviction risk sits in territory where contested cases drag and tenant defenses are well organized, so airtight notices and screening matter more than usual.
About tract 34023006002
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Highest-risk tracts in New Brunswick
Top eight tracts in New Brunswick ranked by composite eviction-risk score.