Within parent city
17
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #4,622 of 84,120 nationally
Lakewood Eviction Risk: High
Tract 34029715600 · Ocean County, NJ · pop 10,398
Census tract 34029715600 covers part of Lakewood, NJ, and scores 8.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 10,398. It sits 3.8 points above the Ocean County average of 5.0.
Risk score
8.8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 36%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units1,808
Renter share58.3%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate14.9%
Median income$72,636
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
93
th percentile
Very High
Within state
90
th percentile
Very High
National
95
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Lakewood and the region
Centroid at 40.0786, -74.2128 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lakewood scores 8.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Lakewood
5.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.6
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
14.9% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$1,887 rent vs county FMR
4.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lakewood
9.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lakewood
9.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lakewood
9.3
How Lakewood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 64
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 77%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 17%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
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)
- 515Total filings over 6 yrs
- 10.35%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.9%Peak (2017)
- 94Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 22% over the past 6 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 14.7%Housing insecurity
- 9.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.2%Food insecurity
- 12.8%SNAP enrollment
- 10.3%Transit barriers
- 12.8%No health insurance
- 19.3%Frequent mental distress
- 26.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Lakewood
Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.4/10.
Running hot, housing-court posture reads 9.3/10. Against Ocean County at 50.5%, 62% of renters here are cost-burdened. The filing record is not thin: 515 evictions over 6 years of observation.
At $1,887 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Lakewood commands. Filings peaked in 2017 at 12.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 10.4% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #4,622 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.8/10.
Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 2.8 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $72,636.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 34029715600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34029715600?
Census tract 34029715600 in Lakewood scores 8.8/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 34029715600?
Median gross rent is $1,887/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34029715600?
14.9% of residents in tract 34029715600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 10,398.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34029715600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 77th, household 11th, minority 17th, housing 89th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34029715600?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 515 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 34029715600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.35% of renter households, peaking at 12.9% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34029715600 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.7% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 9.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34029715600 compare to Lakewood overall?
Tract 34029715600 scores 8.8/10, higher than the parent city of Lakewood at 7.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lakewood eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Lakewood
Top eight tracts in Lakewood ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
Tract · NJ
Greenville
9.2
/ 10 · Very High
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34029715202
9.2
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · NJ
34029715301
9.2
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · NJ
34029715303
9.2
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · NJ
34029715304
9.2
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · NJ
34029715401
9.2
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · NJ
34029715403
9.2
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · NJ
34029715404
9.2
/ 10 · Very High
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