Central Park Eviction Risk: High , Chicago
Tract 17031260400 · Cook County, IL · pop 939 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 8.1/10, tract 17031260400 in the Central Park area of Chicago, IL reads high for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 939 residents. The severe-burden share is 57%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.8842, -87.7380 · click any tract to drill in
Why Central Park scores 8.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Central Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 71%Household composition
- 100%Racial/ethnic minority
- 56%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 75%Grade C
- 24%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)
- 434Total filings over 15 yrs
- 9.74%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.1%Peak (2003)
- 25Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Central Park. 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.
- 48.3%Housing insecurity
- 38.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 64.6%Food insecurity
- 72.8%SNAP enrollment
- 32.7%Transit barriers
- 21.1%No health insurance
- 24.4%Frequent mental distress
- 49.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Central Park
63% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Cook County average of 45.6%. Annualized rent equals 111% of average household income of $13,489, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.
Housing insecurity runs 48.3% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 67%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
This is renter territory: 84% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1.
On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.1% against 11.3% nationally.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 434 filings here across 15 tracked years. At $1,244 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Filings peaked in 2003 at 14.1% 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.
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