Within neighborhood
20
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #23,808 of 84,120 nationally
Park Village Eviction Risk: Moderate , Roselle
Tract 34039034800 · Union County, NJ · pop 4,884 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
With a score of 5.5/10, tract 34039034800 in the Park Village area of Linden, NJ reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,884 residents. 14% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well under the Union County average of 44.6%.
Risk score
5.5
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1%
Stable renters 4%
Owners 95%
Tract context
Occupied units1,661
Renter share4.7%
SVI overall0.28
Poverty rate6.9%
Median income$134,583
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
32
th percentile
Low
Within state
47
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Roselle and the region
Centroid at 40.6405, -74.2766 · click any tract to drill in
Why Park Village scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
6.9% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Roselle
6.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Roselle
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Roselle
5.7
How Park Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 28
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 33%Socioeconomic
- 30%Household composition
- 66%Racial/ethnic minority
- 21%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.
- 81%Grade A
- 12%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)
- 25Total filings over 4 yrs
- 17.38%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.7%Peak (2017)
- 2Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 71% over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Park Village. 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.
- 12.2%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.0%Food insecurity
- 6.8%SNAP enrollment
- 6.8%Transit barriers
- 12.1%No health insurance
- 14.9%Frequent mental distress
- 24.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Park Village
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.9/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.7/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Union County average of 6.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 25 filings here across 4 tracked years.
SNAP participation runs 6.8% against 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2017, when 8.7% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 17.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #23,808 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Only 5% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.
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 34039034800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34039034800?
Census tract 34039034800 in the Park Village neighborhood scores 5.5/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 34039034800?
6.9% of residents in tract 34039034800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,884.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 34039034800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 28th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 30th, minority 66th, housing 21th.
Q4
Is tract 34039034800 considered part of Park Village?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34039034800 fall within Park Village (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34039034800?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 25 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34039034800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 17.38% of renter households, peaking at 8.7% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34039034800 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.2% 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. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34039034800 compare to Roselle overall?
Tract 34039034800 scores 5.5/10, lower 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 34039034800 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Roselle
Top eight tracts in Roselle ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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34039034500
8
/ 10 · High
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34039035100
7.6
/ 10 · High
Tract · NJ
34039034700
7.1
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34039035000
6.9
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34039035400
6.7
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34039035200
6.6
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34039034900
6.5
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · NJ
34039035300
6.5
/ 10 · Elevated
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