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Neighborhood · Ranked #7,382 of 84,120 nationally

Becks Park Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Tract 17031681000 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,297 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

17031681000 is a census tract in the Becks Park area of Chicago, IL. It scores 8.1/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,297. Food insecurity runs 51.0% against 17.8% nationally.

Risk score
8.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 38% Stable renters 33% Owners 29%
Tract context
Occupied units1,099
Renter share71.2%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate37.5%
Median income$27,844

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
22 th percentile
Rank, 22nd percentileLowHigh
#8 of 10 tracts In Becks Park
Low
Within parent city
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#114 of 792 tracts In Chicago
High
Within county
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#203 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.7760, -87.6495 · click any tract to drill in

Why Becks Park scores 8.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Chicago
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
37.5% poverty · this tract
9.4
Supply constraint
$1,008 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Chicago
5.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Chicago
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Chicago
6.5

How Becks Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Becks Park risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.18.1This tracttract 681000Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 87

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

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.

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)

  • 920Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 7.04%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.5%Peak (2001)
  • 49Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170316810002001: 94 filings (9.54/100 renter HHs)2002: 92 filings (9.34/100 renter HHs)2003: 91 filings (9.24/100 renter HHs)2004: 70 filings (7.11/100 renter HHs)2005: 54 filings (6.53/100 renter HHs)2006: 54 filings (6.53/100 renter HHs)2007: 57 filings (6.89/100 renter HHs)2008: 73 filings (8.83/100 renter HHs)2009: 48 filings (5.80/100 renter HHs)2010: 41 filings (5.03/100 renter HHs)2011: 48 filings (6.00/100 renter HHs)2012: 58 filings (7.25/100 renter HHs)2013: 40 filings (5.00/100 renter HHs)2014: 51 filings (6.38/100 renter HHs)2015: 49 filings (6.12/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 48% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Becks Park. 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 Becks Park

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.4/10. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Annualized rent equals 43% of average household income of $27,844, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 29.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1.

At $1,008 a month, rents run 30% under what the rest of Chicago commands. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

53% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Cook County average of 45.6%. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 920 filings here across 15 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2001 at 9.5% of renter households.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031681000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031681000?

Census tract 17031681000 in the Becks Park neighborhood scores 8.1/10 (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 17031681000?

Median gross rent is $1,008/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031681000?

37.5% of residents in tract 17031681000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,297.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031681000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 74th, minority 99th, housing 47th.
Q5

Is tract 17031681000 considered part of Becks Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031681000 fall within Becks Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031681000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 920 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031681000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.04% of renter households, peaking at 9.5% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031681000 struggle to pay rent?

About 38.5% 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. 29.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031681000 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031681000 scores 8.1/10, higher than the parent city of Chicago at 6.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Chicago eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 17031681000 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. 99% 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

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

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