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Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally

Gregory Place Eviction Risk: High , Urbana

Tract 17019005902 · Champaign County, IL · pop 2,686 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

With a score of 8/10, tract 17019005902 in the Gregory Place area of Urbana, IL reads high for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 42%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
8
High
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 65% Stable renters 35% Owners 0%
Tract context
Occupied units756
Renter share100.0%
SVI overall0.51
Poverty rate66.8%
Median income$15,781

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Gregory Place
Very Low
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 13 tracts In Urbana
Very High
Within county
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 48 tracts In Champaign County
Very High
Within state
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#280 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Urbana and the region

Centroid at 40.1087, -88.2247 · click any tract to drill in

Why Gregory Place scores 8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Urbana
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
66.8% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$938 rent vs county FMR
3.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Urbana
8.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Urbana
9.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Urbana
8.4

How Gregory Place compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Gregory Place risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.0This tracttract 0059026.6Urbanaparent city5.8Countyavg tract in county5.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 51

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Gregory Place. 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 Gregory Place

Against Champaign County at 44.1%, roughly two in three of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 71% of average household income of $15,781, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 67%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.7/10. Against the Champaign County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points.

Food insecurity runs 34.9% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 30.9% against 15.2% nationally. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10.

On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.9 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 17019005902

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17019005902?

Census tract 17019005902 in the Gregory Place neighborhood scores 8/10 (High 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 17019005902?

Median gross rent is $938/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17019005902?

66.8% of residents in tract 17019005902 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,686.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17019005902?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 51th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 2th, minority 67th, housing 95th.
Q5

Is tract 17019005902 considered part of Gregory Place?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17019005902 fall within Gregory Place (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 17019005902 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. 13.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 17019005902 compare to Urbana overall?

Tract 17019005902 scores 8/10, higher than the parent city of Urbana at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Urbana eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Urbana

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

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