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Central Street Evanston Eviction Risk: Lower , Wilmette

Tract 17031801100 · Cook County, IL · pop 5,045 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Central Street Evanston in Wilmette is where census tract 17031801100 sits, home to 5,045 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 4.6/10. It lands near the 26th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.

30% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 8% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,913 a month against an average household income of $241,174 a year, roughly 10% of income at the averages. About 8% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Risk score

1.2

Lower

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 3% Stable renters 6% Owners 91%

Tract context

Occupied units1,559

Renter share8.3%

SVI overall0.06

Poverty rate1.6%

Median income$241,174

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Wilmette and the region

Centroid at 42.0752, -87.7150 · click any tract to drill in

Why Central Street Evanston scores 1.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Wilmette

6.6

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.5

State political climate

Illinois legislature & governorship

5.2

Economic stress

1.6% poverty · this tract

1.0

Supply constraint

$1,913 rent vs county FMR

5.9

Rent control risk

Inherited from Wilmette

5.1

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

5.2

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Wilmette

3.1

Housing court bias

Inherited from Wilmette

3.8

How Central Street Evanston compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 6

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

3%Socioeconomic
12%Household composition
17%Racial/ethnic minority
27%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

1%Grade A
60%Grade B
34%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.

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)

38Total filings over 14 yrs
1.21%Avg annual filing rate
2.5%Peak (2001)
2Filings in 2015 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2001 to 2015

Filings dropped 67% over the past 15 months.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Central Street Evanston. 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.

4.8%Housing insecurity
2.9%Utility-shutoff threat
4.7%Food insecurity
3.2%SNAP enrollment
3.1%Transit barriers
3.3%No health insurance
10.7%Frequent mental distress
16.4%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Central Street Evanston

The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 5.9/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Wilmette, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Cook County average of 5.7 and below the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of B ("Still Desirable"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.

The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 6th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031801100

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031801100?

Census tract 17031801100 in the Central Street Evanston neighborhood scores 1.2/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 17031801100?

Median gross rent is $1,913/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 30% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031801100?

1.6% of residents in tract 17031801100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,045.

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031801100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 6th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 3th, household 12th, minority 17th, housing 27th.

Is tract 17031801100 considered part of Central Street Evanston?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031801100 fall within Central Street Evanston (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031801100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 38 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 17031801100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.21% of renter households, peaking at 2.5% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

What share of households in tract 17031801100 struggle to pay rent?

About 4.8% 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. 2.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 17031801100 compare to Wilmette overall?

Tract 17031801100 scores 1.2/10, lower than the parent city of Wilmette at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Wilmette; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 17031801100 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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 Wilmette

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

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org