Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #47,371 of 84,120 nationally
Packanack Lake Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34031246201 · Passaic County, NJ · pop 6,569 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
With a score of 4.1/10, tract 34031246201 in the Packanack Lake area of Passaic County, NJ reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs 4% here against 49.2% across Passaic County.
Risk score
4.1
Moderate
Confidence 65% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0%
Stable renters 4%
Owners 96%
Tract context
Occupied units2,091
Renter share4.4%
SVI overall0.09
Poverty rate0.5%
Median income$183,285
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
17
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
18
th percentile
Very Low
National
44
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Packanack Lake and the region
Centroid at 40.9571, -74.2634 · click any tract to drill in
Why Packanack Lake scores 4.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Packanack Lake
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
0.5% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Packanack Lake
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Packanack Lake
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Packanack Lake
5.0
How Packanack Lake compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 6%Socioeconomic
- 38%Household composition
- 30%Racial/ethnic minority
- 12%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)
- 13Total filings over 4 yrs
- 7.60%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.8%Peak (2013)
- 4Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 33% over the past 5 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Packanack Lake. 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.
- 7.1%Housing insecurity
- 3.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.7%Food insecurity
- 3.4%SNAP enrollment
- 4.2%Transit barriers
- 6.6%No health insurance
- 12.8%Frequent mental distress
- 21.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Packanack Lake
Against the Passaic County average of 6.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.6 points. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.1/10.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. SNAP participation runs 3.4% against 15.2% nationally.
Food insecurity runs 7.7% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 13 evictions over 4 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2013 at 11.8% of renter households.
In a typical year about 7.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 44th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 4% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.8/10. Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.9 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.
Model confidence here is 65%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point. Poverty sits at 1%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34031246201
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34031246201?
Census tract 34031246201 in the Packanack Lake neighborhood scores 4.1/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 34031246201?
0.5% of residents in tract 34031246201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,569.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 34031246201?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 9th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 6th, household 38th, minority 30th, housing 12th.
Q4
Is tract 34031246201 considered part of Packanack Lake?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34031246201 fall within Packanack Lake (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34031246201?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 13 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34031246201 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.60% of renter households, peaking at 11.8% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34031246201 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.1% 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. 3.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34031246201 compare to Packanack Lake overall?
Tract 34031246201 scores 4.1/10, right in line with the parent city of Packanack Lake at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Packanack Lake; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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