Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #32,842 of 84,120 nationally
Kenilworth Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 34039033600 · Union County, NJ · pop 8,345
34039033600 is a census tract in Kenilworth, NJ. It scores 5/10 for landlords. Population here is 8,345. 44% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 73%
Tract context
Occupied units2,880
Renter share27.2%
SVI overall0.57
Poverty rate6.0%
Median income$126,295
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
24
th percentile
Low
Within state
36
th percentile
Low
National
61
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kenilworth and the region
Centroid at 40.6781, -74.2881 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kenilworth scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Kenilworth
7.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
6.0% poverty · this tract
1.5
Supply constraint
$2,119 rent vs county FMR
4.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Kenilworth
8.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Kenilworth
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Kenilworth
6.0
How Kenilworth compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 57
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 62%Socioeconomic
- 81%Household composition
- 61%Racial/ethnic minority
- 22%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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 1%Grade C
- 18%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)
- 80Total filings over 4 yrs
- 2.90%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.2%Peak (2018)
- 26Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 30% 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.
- 12.7%Housing insecurity
- 7.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.5%Food insecurity
- 8.5%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 12.5%No health insurance
- 16.2%Frequent mental distress
- 26.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Kenilworth
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.9/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.
On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.6 points below the Union County average of 6.6. Cost burden runs about half here against 44.6% across Union County.
The filing record is not thin: 80 evictions over 4 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2018, when 3.2% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 2.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.
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 34039033600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34039033600?
Census tract 34039033600 in Kenilworth scores 5/10 (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 34039033600?
Median gross rent is $2,119/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34039033600?
6.0% of residents in tract 34039033600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 8,345.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34039033600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 57th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 62th, household 81th, minority 61th, housing 22th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34039033600?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 80 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34039033600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.90% of renter households, peaking at 3.2% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34039033600 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.7% 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. 7.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34039033600 compare to Kenilworth overall?
Tract 34039033600 scores 5/10, lower than the parent city of Kenilworth at 6.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kenilworth; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 34039033600 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. 18% 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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