Riverside Eviction Risk: High , Paterson
Tract 34031181200 · Passaic County, NJ · pop 5,006 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
34031181200 is a census tract in the Riverside area of Paterson, NJ. It scores 9.1/10 for landlords. Population here is 5,006. 34% 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 Paterson and the region
Centroid at 40.9243, -74.1500 · click any tract to drill in
Why Riverside scores 9.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Riverside compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 78%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 74%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)
- 1,185Total filings over 5 yrs
- 22.66%Avg annual filing rate
- 24.5%Peak (2015)
- 223Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Riverside. 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.
- 28.9%Housing insecurity
- 16.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.3%Food insecurity
- 22.5%SNAP enrollment
- 15.3%Transit barriers
- 23.6%No health insurance
- 17.9%Frequent mental distress
- 32.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Riverside
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.1/10. It sits 2.4 points above the Passaic County average of 6.7. 79% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.
On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 23.6% against 11.3% nationally. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 1,185 filings here across 5 tracked years.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2015, when 24.5% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 22.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 95% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 3.1 points hotter.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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