Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #15,451 of 84,120 nationally
Vauxhall Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 34039032800 · Union County, NJ · pop 4,928 · 88% of tract blocks fall in Vauxhall
With a score of 6.5/10, tract 34039032800 in Vauxhall, NJ reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,928. Cost burden runs 59% here against 44.6% across Union County.
Risk score
6.5
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 26%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 56%
Tract context
Occupied units1,810
Renter share43.6%
SVI overall0.78
Poverty rate9.6%
Median income$104,333
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
49
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
63
th percentile
Elevated
National
82
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Vauxhall and the region
Centroid at 40.7174, -74.2811 · click any tract to drill in
Why Vauxhall scores 6.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Vauxhall
7.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
9.6% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,899 rent vs county FMR
3.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Vauxhall
8.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Vauxhall
8.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Vauxhall
6.5
How Vauxhall compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 83%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 61%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 7%Grade A
- 1%Grade B
- 9%Grade C
- 81%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 348Total filings over 4 yrs
- 11.78%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.1%Peak (2017)
- 86Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 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.
- 20.2%Housing insecurity
- 11.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.7%Food insecurity
- 14.0%SNAP enrollment
- 10.9%Transit barriers
- 12.1%No health insurance
- 16.5%Frequent mental distress
- 26.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Vauxhall
What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10. Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 348 filings here across 4 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2017 at 13.1% of renter households.
This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Essex Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 11.8% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.1/10.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Union County average of 6.6 closely. Average gross rent is $1,899, close to the Vauxhall average.
Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $104,333.
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 34039032800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34039032800?
Census tract 34039032800 in Vauxhall scores 6.5/10 (Elevated 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 34039032800?
Median gross rent is $1,899/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 59% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34039032800?
9.6% of residents in tract 34039032800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,928.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34039032800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 78th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 83th, minority 89th, housing 61th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34039032800?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 348 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34039032800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.78% of renter households, peaking at 13.1% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34039032800 struggle to pay rent?
About 20.2% 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. 11.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34039032800 compare to Vauxhall overall?
Tract 34039032800 scores 6.5/10, right in line with the parent city of Vauxhall at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Vauxhall; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34039032800 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 81% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Vauxhall
Top eight tracts in Vauxhall ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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