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Neighborhood · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally

Preakness Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 34031246104 · Passaic County, NJ · pop 2,827 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

With a score of 4.5/10, tract 34031246104 in the Preakness area of Preakness, NJ reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 45%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24% Stable renters 16% Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units1,154
Renter share40.0%
SVI overall0.49
Poverty rate6.4%
Median income$116,667

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Preakness
Very Low
Within parent city
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 6 tracts In Preakness
Moderate
Within county
22 th percentile
Rank, 22nd percentileLowHigh
#94 of 120 tracts In Passaic County
Low
Within state
24 th percentile
Rank, 24th percentileLowHigh
#1,645 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Preakness and the region

Centroid at 40.9175, -74.2323 · click any tract to drill in

Why Preakness scores 4.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Preakness
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
6.4% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$845 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Preakness
6.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Preakness
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Preakness
4.5

How Preakness compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Preakness risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.5This tracttract 2461045.9Preaknessparent city6.7Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 49

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 9Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 1.02%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.2%Peak (2016)
  • 5Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34031246104
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Preakness. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Preakness

Average gross rent is $845, 56% below the Preakness average. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.1/10. Against the Passaic County average of 6.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.2 points.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Against Passaic County at 49.2%, 59% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.6/10.

SNAP participation runs 6.0% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 9 filings here across 2 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2016 at 1.2% of renter households.

In a typical year about 1.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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 34031246104

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34031246104?

Census tract 34031246104 in the Preakness neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (Moderate 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 34031246104?

Median gross rent is $845/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 59% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34031246104?

6.4% of residents in tract 34031246104 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,827.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34031246104?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 49th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 38th, household 43th, minority 35th, housing 71th.
Q5

Is tract 34031246104 considered part of Preakness?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34031246104 fall within Preakness (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34031246104?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 9 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 34031246104 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.02% of renter households, peaking at 1.2% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 34031246104 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.5% 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. 4.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 34031246104 compare to Preakness overall?

Tract 34031246104 scores 4.5/10, lower than the parent city of Preakness at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Preakness; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Preakness

Top eight tracts in Preakness ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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