Wilmette Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 17031801200 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,699 · 97% of tract blocks fall in Wilmette
For landlords sizing up Wilmette, census tract 17031801200 carries a moderate eviction-risk score of 4.7/10. That is riskier than roughly 29% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
30% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 0% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $2,250 monthly, set against $250,001 in average yearly household income, roughly 11% of income at the averages. About 4% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Wilmette and the region
Centroid at 42.0789, -87.6848 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wilmette scores 1.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Wilmette compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 14
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 1%Socioeconomic
- 51%Household composition
- 11%Racial/ethnic minority
- 47%Housing & transportation
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.
- 32%Grade A
- 47%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)
- 20Total filings over 11 yrs
- 3.58%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.9%Peak (2012)
- 2Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 4.0%Housing insecurity
- 2.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 4.2%Food insecurity
- 2.9%SNAP enrollment
- 2.9%Transit barriers
- 3.1%No health insurance
- 10.0%Frequent mental distress
- 19.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Wilmette
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 7.8/10. 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 4.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 2.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 14th 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.
About tract 17031801200
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Highest-risk tracts in Wilmette
Top eight tracts in Wilmette ranked by composite eviction-risk score.