Chester Highlands Eviction Risk: High
3 census tracts · pop 10,466 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 8.1/10 · range 8.1–8.1
Chester Highlands takes in 3 census tracts of Chicago, IL, population 10,466. That produces an Eviction Risk Score of 8.1/10, High tier. Cost burden runs 46% against 29.3% citywide, putting Chester Highlands 16.4% over its own city.
SNAP participation is 43.1% of households versus 15.2% nationally. Pulling the other way is supply constraint, at 1.1/10. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 31.4% of adults, against 14.2% nationally.
At $1,050 a month, rents sit 27% under what the rest of Chicago commands. The severe-burden share is 19%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay.
Sitting well above the midpoint is tenant-organizing strength at 8/10. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.
Court records carry 2,235 eviction filings across its 3 observed tracts. On the high side is eviction-process difficulty at 7.5/10.
Filing activity peaked in 2015 at 15.1% of renter households. Among the 187 mapped neighborhoods of Chicago, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third.
Judgments average 1.8% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order. Social vulnerability runs high at 9.1/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.
With little internal variation, 8.1/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.
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Risk heat across Chester Highlands and the region
Click any tract to drill in · 3 tracts span score 8.1–8.1
Why Chester Highlands scores 8.1
9 axes · pop-weighted · 1 = landlord-friendlyChester Highlands vs. parent city, state, U.S.
Eviction Risk Score (0–10 scale).
How uniformly does eviction risk play out in Chester Highlands?
Left: distribution of constituent tract scores. Right: every tract as a heat square. Click any square to drill in.
3 tracts in Chester Highlands
Ranked highest-risk first. Click for per-tract detail.
| Tract↕ | Score↕ | Pop↕ | % over 30% on rent↕ | Average rent↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17031710800 | 8.1 | 4,536 | 47% | $1,097 |
| 17031711000 | 8.1 | 3,779 | 43% | $1,067 |
| 17031710900 | 8.1 | 2,151 | 47% | $919 |
CDC SVI percentile: 90
Pop-weighted across 3 tracts. Higher = more vulnerable to disaster, displacement, and rent shocks. Source: CDC/ATSDR SVI 2022.
Court-record eviction history in Chester Highlands
Aggregated across 3 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 2,235Total filings (sum)
- 7.55%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.1%Peak year (2015)
- 7.76%Latest filed (2015)
Eviction-adjacent indicators in Chester Highlands
Average across all constituent tracts, population-weighted. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh) crude prevalence.
- 31.5%Housing insecurity
- 22.1%Utility shutoff threat
- 40.6%Food insecurity
- 43.5%SNAP enrollment
- 12.0%No health insurance
- 37.9%Any disability
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