Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #13,812 of 84,120 nationally
Bellwood Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 17031817101 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,802
17031817101 is a census tract in Bellwood, IL. It scores 6.8/10 for landlords. Population here is 4,802. Severe burden reaches 46%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
6.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21%
Stable renters 6%
Owners 73%
Tract context
Occupied units1,683
Renter share27.5%
SVI overall0.79
Poverty rate19.7%
Median income$63,323
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
58
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
81
th percentile
High
National
84
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Bellwood and the region
Centroid at 41.8762, -87.8781 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bellwood scores 6.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Bellwood
6.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
19.7% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$1,189 rent vs county FMR
1.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Bellwood
9.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Bellwood
4.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Bellwood
7.3
How Bellwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 78%Socioeconomic
- 44%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 75%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 8%Grade C
- 31%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)
- 717Total filings over 15 yrs
- 7.07%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.9%Peak (2013)
- 49Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 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.
- 30.0%Housing insecurity
- 19.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 37.2%Food insecurity
- 38.2%SNAP enrollment
- 17.2%Transit barriers
- 13.6%No health insurance
- 18.6%Frequent mental distress
- 35.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bellwood
Cost burden runs about three-quarters here against 45.6% across Cook County. SNAP participation runs 38.2% against 15.2% nationally. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 9/10.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.8/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.5/10.
The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The filing record is not thin: 717 evictions over 15 years of observation.
It sits 0.7 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Filings peaked in 2013 at 9.9% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031817101
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031817101?
Census tract 17031817101 in Bellwood scores 6.8/10 (Elevated 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 17031817101?
Median gross rent is $1,189/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 76% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031817101?
19.7% of residents in tract 17031817101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,802.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031817101?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 79th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 78th, household 44th, minority 95th, housing 75th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031817101?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 717 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031817101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.07% of renter households, peaking at 9.9% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 17031817101 struggle to pay rent?
About 30.0% 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. 19.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 17031817101 compare to Bellwood overall?
Tract 17031817101 scores 6.8/10, higher than the parent city of Bellwood at 5.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Bellwood; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 17031817101 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 31% 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 Bellwood
Top eight tracts in Bellwood ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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