New Jersey Redlining Map — 1930s HOLC grades

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Redlining New Jersey

The lines the government drew around your neighborhood shape how you live nearly a hundred years later.

In the 1930s a federal agency — the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) — graded neighborhoods from A ("Best") to D ("Hazardous") to rate mortgage-lending risk. Lenders used these maps to deny loans in lower-graded areas, a practice known as redlining. This map shows those 1930s grades over present-day New Jersey, shaded green (A) to red (D) — see the key on the map, and tap any area to read the original appraiser's notes.

Read more about redlining and HOLC →

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HOLC only surveyed New Jersey's larger cities in the 1930s, so most towns aren't on these maps. Don't see yours? Pick the nearest listed area.

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Data: Mapping Inequality, University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab.