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

Chester Highlands Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Tract 17031710900 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,151 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Census tract 17031710900 covers part of the Chester Highlands area of Chicago, IL, and scores 8.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,151 residents. SNAP participation runs 40.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Risk score
8.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24% Stable renters 27% Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units765
Renter share51.2%
SVI overall0.82
Poverty rate35.2%
Median income$48,867

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Chester Highlands
Moderate
Within parent city
81 th percentile
Rank, 81st percentileLowHigh
#154 of 792 tracts In Chicago
High
Within county
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#223 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 41.7421, -87.6397 · click any tract to drill in

Why Chester Highlands 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
35.2% poverty · this tract
8.8
Supply constraint
$919 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 Chester Highlands compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Chester Highlands risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.18.1This tracttract 710900Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 82

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)

  • 439Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 8.47%Avg annual filing rate
  • 15.1%Peak (2004)
  • 26Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170317109002001: 41 filings (12.65/100 renter HHs)2002: 34 filings (10.49/100 renter HHs)2003: 43 filings (13.27/100 renter HHs)2004: 49 filings (15.12/100 renter HHs)2005: 33 filings (11.11/100 renter HHs)2006: 27 filings (9.09/100 renter HHs)2007: 21 filings (7.07/100 renter HHs)2008: 25 filings (8.42/100 renter HHs)2009: 22 filings (7.41/100 renter HHs)2010: 22 filings (5.85/100 renter HHs)2011: 19 filings (4.14/100 renter HHs)2012: 32 filings (6.97/100 renter HHs)2013: 27 filings (5.88/100 renter HHs)2014: 18 filings (3.92/100 renter HHs)2015: 26 filings (5.66/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 37% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Chester Highlands. 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 Chester Highlands

Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10.

Average gross rent is $919, 36% below the Chicago average. The poverty rate is 35%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.8/10.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. Housing insecurity runs 30.8% against 14.2% nationally. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

The filing record is not thin: 439 evictions over 15 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2004, when 15.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Chicago. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 8.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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 17031710900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031710900?

Census tract 17031710900 in the Chester Highlands 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 17031710900?

Median gross rent is $919/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031710900?

35.2% of residents in tract 17031710900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,151.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031710900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 82th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 73th, minority 100th, housing 62th.
Q5

Is tract 17031710900 considered part of Chester Highlands?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031710900 fall within Chester Highlands (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031710900?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 439 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031710900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.47% of renter households, peaking at 15.1% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031710900 struggle to pay rent?

About 30.8% 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. 21.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031710900 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031710900 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 17031710900 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. 57% 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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