Within neighborhood
10
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Park Village Eviction Risk: Moderate , Roselle
Tract 34039037300 · Union County, NJ · pop 4,498 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Census tract 34039037300 covers part of the Park Village area of Union County, NJ, and scores 4.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10%
Stable renters 8%
Owners 82%
Tract context
Occupied units1,624
Renter share18.2%
SVI overall0.18
Poverty rate2.0%
Median income$140,588
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
19
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
32
th percentile
Low
National
58
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Roselle and the region
Centroid at 40.6451, -74.2935 · click any tract to drill in
Why Park Village scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Roselle
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
2.0% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,361 rent vs county FMR
6.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Roselle
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Roselle
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Roselle
5.0
How Park Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 18
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 15%Socioeconomic
- 35%Household composition
- 21%Racial/ethnic minority
- 30%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
- 15%Grade B
- 32%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)
- 8Total filings over 4 yrs
- 0.63%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.1%Peak (2013)
- 1Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 67% 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.
- 7.5%Housing insecurity
- 4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.5%Food insecurity
- 3.8%SNAP enrollment
- 4.6%Transit barriers
- 7.2%No health insurance
- 13.5%Frequent mental distress
- 20.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Park Village
The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.
Against the Union County average of 6.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.8 points. Against Union County at 44.6%, 54% of renters here are cost-burdened. SNAP participation runs 3.8% against 15.2% nationally.
Food insecurity runs 7.5% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 8 filings here across 4 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 1.1% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 0.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 34039037300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34039037300?
Census tract 34039037300 in the Park Village neighborhood 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 average rent in tract 34039037300?
Median gross rent is $2,361/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34039037300?
2.0% of residents in tract 34039037300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,498.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34039037300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 18th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 15th, household 35th, minority 21th, housing 30th.
Q5
Is tract 34039037300 considered part of Park Village?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 34039037300 fall within Park Village (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34039037300?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 8 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 34039037300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.63% of renter households, peaking at 1.1% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 34039037300 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.5% 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. 4.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 34039037300 compare to Roselle overall?
Tract 34039037300 scores 4.8/10, 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.
Q9
Was tract 34039037300 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. 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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