Florham Park Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34027042602 · Morris County, NJ · pop 5,529
Tract 34027042602 sits in Florham Park, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.8/10. Population here is 5,529. 35% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Florham Park and the region
Centroid at 40.7689, -74.3812 · click any tract to drill in
Why Florham Park scores 6.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Florham Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 19
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 10%Socioeconomic
- 34%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 31%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 3%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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.
- 6.9%Housing insecurity
- 4.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.6%Food insecurity
- 4.5%SNAP enrollment
- 4.9%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 12.6%Frequent mental distress
- 21.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Florham Park
The voucher gap is 46.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The dominant input is supply constraint at 9.6/10. 49% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Morris County average of 40.8%.
Against the Morris County average of 5.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. SNAP participation runs 4.5% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 7.6% against 17.8% nationally.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.9/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.1/10.
This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Essex Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #13,812 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 34027042602
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Highest-risk tracts in Florham Park
Top eight tracts in Florham Park ranked by composite eviction-risk score.