Middlewood Eviction Risk: Lower , Old Bridge
Tract 34023007703 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 3,429 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Middlewood in Old Bridge anchors census tract 34023007703, which lands at 6.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #8,376 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 62% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 0% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $2,464 monthly, set against $140,938 in average yearly household income, roughly 21% of income at the averages. Renters make up 9% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Old Bridge and the region
Centroid at 40.3946, -74.3660 · click any tract to drill in
Why Middlewood scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Middlewood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 26%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 45%Racial/ethnic minority
- 6%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)
- 9Total filings over 1 yrs
- 10.23%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.2%Peak (2015)
- 9Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Middlewood. 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.
- 10.7%Housing insecurity
- 5.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.7%Food insecurity
- 6.0%SNAP enrollment
- 6.4%Transit barriers
- 9.5%No health insurance
- 15.8%Frequent mental distress
- 24.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Middlewood
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 6.3/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Old Bridge eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Middlesex County average of 6.4 and in line with 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 9 eviction filings here over 1 tracked years, with about 10.2% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 10.2% of renter households in 2015.
In CDC survey modeling, about 10.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.7% 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 34023007703
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Highest-risk tracts in Old Bridge
Top eight tracts in Old Bridge ranked by composite eviction-risk score.