Middlewood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Old Bridge
Tract 34023007704 · Middlesex County, NJ · pop 2,711 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 34023007704 (the Middlewood area of Old Bridge, New Jersey) comes in at 6.5/10, the Elevated tier. It lands near the 87th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 66% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 41% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $959 a month against an average household income of $87,500 a year, roughly 13% of income at the averages. Renters make up 14% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Old Bridge and the region
Centroid at 40.3954, -74.3540 · click any tract to drill in
Why Middlewood scores 4.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Middlewood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 21
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 15%Household composition
- 35%Racial/ethnic minority
- 13%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)
- 5Total filings over 1 yrs
- 4.00%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.0%Peak (2015)
- 5Filings 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.
- 12.1%Housing insecurity
- 6.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.7%Food insecurity
- 8.8%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 10.8%No health insurance
- 16.9%Frequent mental distress
- 29.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Middlewood
What moves this score most is eviction process difficulty at 6.1/10. 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 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 5 eviction filings here over 1 tracked years, with about 4.0% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 4.0% of renter households in 2015.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 21st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 34023007704
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Highest-risk tracts in Old Bridge
Top eight tracts in Old Bridge ranked by composite eviction-risk score.