Bernice Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lansing
Tract 17031827902 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,331 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
17031827902 is a census tract in the Bernice area of Lansing, IL. It scores 6.8/10 for landlords. Population here is 4,331. Against Cook County at 45.6%, around two-thirds of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Lansing and the region
Centroid at 41.5856, -87.5452 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bernice scores 6.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bernice compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 90%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 53%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. 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
- 0%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.
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)
- 1,089Total filings over 15 yrs
- 11.79%Avg annual filing rate
- 20.4%Peak (2004)
- 49Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Bernice. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 25.7%Housing insecurity
- 16.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 31.9%Food insecurity
- 31.9%SNAP enrollment
- 14.7%Transit barriers
- 13.1%No health insurance
- 18.0%Frequent mental distress
- 33.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bernice
Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 31.9% against 15.2% nationally.
The dominant input is local political climate at 7.8/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.5/10.
Court records carry 1,089 eviction filings across 15 observed years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points.
Filings peaked in 2004 at 20.4% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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.
In a typical year about 11.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #13,812 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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