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Census Tract · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally

Roselle Eviction Risk: Elevated

Tract 34039034100 · Union County, NJ · pop 3,464

Census tract 34039034100 covers part of Roselle, NJ, and scores 7.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,464. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9/10.

Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12% Stable renters 24% Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,269
Renter share36.7%
SVI overall0.83
Poverty rate9.0%
Median income$72,386

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 5 tracts In Roselle
High
Within county
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#44 of 120 tracts In Union County
Elevated
Within state
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#569 of 2,175 tracts In New Jersey
Elevated
National
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#11,153 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Roselle and the region

Centroid at 40.6561, -74.2463 · click any tract to drill in

Why Roselle scores 7.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Roselle
7.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
9.0% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$1,088 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Roselle
6.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Roselle
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Roselle
6.1

How Roselle compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Roselle risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.3This tracttract 0341006.6Roselleparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county6.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 83

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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)

  • 175Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 8.15%Avg annual filing rate
  • 12.8%Peak (2016)
  • 46Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 34039034100
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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Roselle

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Against Union County at 44.6%, 33% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.

At $1,088 a month, rents run 31% under what the rest of Roselle commands. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 175 filings here across 4 tracked years.

Against the Union County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. Filings peaked in 2016 at 12.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Union 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 8.1% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 8.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the NJ average is 6.0, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 34039034100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34039034100?

Census tract 34039034100 in Roselle scores 7.3/10 (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 34039034100?

Median gross rent is $1,088/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 34039034100?

9.0% of residents in tract 34039034100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,464.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 34039034100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 83th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 76th, household 75th, minority 88th, housing 73th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34039034100?

Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 175 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34039034100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.15% of renter households, peaking at 12.8% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 34039034100 struggle to pay rent?

About 19.5% 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. 10.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 34039034100 compare to Roselle overall?

Tract 34039034100 scores 7.3/10, higher than the parent city of Roselle at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Roselle eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 34039034100 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Roselle

Top eight tracts in Roselle ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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