Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Brass Castle Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 34041031900 · Warren County, NJ · pop 6,522 · 19% of tract blocks fall in Brass Castle
34041031900 is a census tract in Brass Castle, NJ. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Population here is 6,522. Against Warren County at 42.1%, 28% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 4%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 85%
Tract context
Occupied units2,567
Renter share14.6%
SVI overall0.34
Poverty rate5.3%
Median income$131,250
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
3
th percentile
Very Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Brass Castle and the region
Centroid at 40.7300, -74.9590 · click any tract to drill in
Why Brass Castle scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Brass Castle
4.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.2
State political climate
New Jersey legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
5.3% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$2,047 rent vs county FMR
7.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Brass Castle
6.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Brass Castle
2.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Brass Castle
4.6
How Brass Castle compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 34
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 28%Socioeconomic
- 37%Household composition
- 31%Racial/ethnic minority
- 51%Housing & transportation
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)
- 134Total filings over 6 yrs
- 17.89%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.0%Peak (2016)
- 9Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 53% over the past 6 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.
- 8.4%Housing insecurity
- 5.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.3%Food insecurity
- 5.3%SNAP enrollment
- 5.4%Transit barriers
- 7.2%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 23.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Brass Castle
What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.8/10. Against the Warren County average of 5.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.0 points.
On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.3/10. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. The voucher gap is 21.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 5.3% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 9.3% against 17.8% nationally.
Princeton eviction risk's Eviction Lab logged 134 filings here across 6 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2016 at 11.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 17.9% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 34041031900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 34041031900?
Census tract 34041031900 in Brass Castle scores 3/10 (Lower 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 34041031900?
Median gross rent is $2,047/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 28% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 34041031900?
5.3% of residents in tract 34041031900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,522.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 34041031900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 34th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 28th, household 37th, minority 31th, housing 51th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 34041031900?
Princeton eviction risk Eviction Lab recorded 134 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 34041031900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 17.89% of renter households, peaking at 11.0% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 34041031900 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.4% 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. 5.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 34041031900 compare to Brass Castle overall?
Tract 34041031900 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Brass Castle at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Brass Castle; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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