Within county
21
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Tract 34039033400 Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34039033400 · Union County, NJ · pop 3,751
Census tract 34039033400 covers part of Union County, NJ, and scores 4.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,751. 100% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Union County average of 44.6%.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 65% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1%
Stable renters 0%
Owners 99%
Tract context
Occupied units1,306
Renter share1.0%
SVI overall0.12
Poverty rate3.1%
Median income$141,184
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within state
32
th percentile
Low
National
58
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Union County and the region
Centroid at 40.6821, -74.2560 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 34039033400 scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
State baseline
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
3.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
State baseline
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
State baseline
4.0
Housing court bias
State baseline
5.0
How Tract 34039033400 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 12
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 12%Socioeconomic
- 59%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 3%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 84%Grade A
- 10%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 18Total filings over 4 yrs
- 6.40%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.3%Peak (2013)
- 3Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 50% 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.
- 10.5%Housing insecurity
- 5.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.0%Food insecurity
- 5.5%SNAP enrollment
- 5.9%Transit barriers
- 10.5%No health insurance
- 13.5%Frequent mental distress
- 21.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tract 34039033400
Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. It sits 1.8 points below the Union County average of 6.6.
SNAP participation runs 5.5% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 18 eviction filings across 4 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2013, when 6.3% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 6.4% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 1% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 2.1/10 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 34039033400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34039033400?
Census tract 34039033400 in Union County 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 poverty rate in tract 34039033400?
3.1% of residents in tract 34039033400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,751.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 34039033400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 12th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 12th, household 59th, minority 67th, housing 3th.
Q4
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34039033400?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 18 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34039033400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.40% of renter households, peaking at 6.3% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q5
What share of households in tract 34039033400 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.5% 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. 5.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
Was tract 34039033400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% 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.
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