Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Vauxhall Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34039032901 · Union County, NJ · pop 4,940 · 18% of tract blocks fall in Vauxhall
Census tract 34039032901 covers part of Vauxhall, NJ, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,940. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 15%
Owners 73%
Tract context
Occupied units1,332
Renter share26.7%
SVI overall0.50
Poverty rate3.2%
Median income$122,685
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
29
th percentile
Low
Within state
45
th percentile
Moderate
National
70
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Vauxhall and the region
Centroid at 40.7116, -74.2891 · click any tract to drill in
Why Vauxhall scores 5.4
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
3.2% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,746 rent vs county FMR
3.2
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: 50
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 25%Socioeconomic
- 48%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 72%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 1%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 55%Grade C
- 14%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)
- 43Total filings over 4 yrs
- 4.06%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.4%Peak (2017)
- 10Filings 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.
- 12.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.3%Food insecurity
- 7.1%SNAP enrollment
- 7.1%Transit barriers
- 10.3%No health insurance
- 14.2%Frequent mental distress
- 23.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Vauxhall
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10.
Against the Union County average of 6.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Court records carry 43 eviction filings across 4 observed years. SNAP participation runs 7.1% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2017 at 5.4% of renter households.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 4.1% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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 34039032901
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34039032901?
Census tract 34039032901 in Vauxhall scores 5.4/10 (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 34039032901?
Median gross rent is $1,746/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34039032901?
3.2% of residents in tract 34039032901 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,940.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34039032901?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 50th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 25th, household 48th, minority 80th, housing 72th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34039032901?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 43 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34039032901 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.06% of renter households, peaking at 5.4% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34039032901 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.6% 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. 6.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34039032901 compare to Vauxhall overall?
Tract 34039032901 scores 5.4/10, lower than 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 34039032901 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 14% 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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