Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Hewitt Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34031256802 · Passaic County, NJ · pop 4,839 · 47% of tract blocks fall in Hewitt
Tract 34031256802 sits in Hewitt, NJ, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.8/10. It is home to 4,839 residents. Cost burden runs 86% here against 49.2% across Passaic County.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 1%
Owners 91%
Tract context
Occupied units1,790
Renter share9.3%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate1.4%
Median income$143,828
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
29
th percentile
Low
Within state
32
th percentile
Low
National
58
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Hewitt and the region
Centroid at 41.1437, -74.3377 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hewitt scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Hewitt
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
1.4% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,146 rent vs county FMR
5.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Hewitt
9.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Hewitt
2.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Hewitt
5.7
How Hewitt compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 17%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 11%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)
- 52Total filings over 5 yrs
- 9.25%Avg annual filing rate
- 22.4%Peak (2018)
- 19Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 217% over the past 5 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.
- 8.6%Housing insecurity
- 4.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.5%Food insecurity
- 4.6%SNAP enrollment
- 5.1%Transit barriers
- 7.5%No health insurance
- 14.9%Frequent mental distress
- 23.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Hewitt
33% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9.4/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.1/10.
On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. It sits 1.9 points below the Passaic County average of 6.7.
SNAP participation runs 4.6% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 52 eviction filings across 5 observed years.
Food insecurity runs 9.5% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2018, when 22.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 9.3% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 9% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 1.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34031256802
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34031256802?
Census tract 34031256802 in Hewitt scores 4.8/10 (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 34031256802?
Median gross rent is $2,146/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 86% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34031256802?
1.4% of residents in tract 34031256802 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,839.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34031256802?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 17th, household 2th, minority 25th, housing 11th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34031256802?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 52 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 34031256802 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.25% of renter households, peaking at 22.4% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34031256802 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.6% 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. 4.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34031256802 compare to Hewitt overall?
Tract 34031256802 scores 4.8/10, lower than the parent city of Hewitt at 6.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Hewitt; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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