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Neighborhood · Ranked #17,132 of 84,120 nationally

Church and Dodge Eviction Risk: Elevated , Evanston

Tract 17031809600 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,226 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

With a score of 6.2/10, tract 17031809600 in the Church and Dodge area of Evanston, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,226 residents. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.4/10.

Risk score
6.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9% Stable renters 17% Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units1,359
Renter share26.0%
SVI overall0.31
Poverty rate5.8%
Median income$71,635

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Church and Dodge
Very Low
Within parent city
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#8 of 19 tracts In Evanston
Elevated
Within county
49 th percentile
Rank, 49th percentileLowHigh
#680 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Moderate
Within state
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#802 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Evanston and the region

Centroid at 42.0447, -87.6999 · click any tract to drill in

Why Church and Dodge scores 6.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Evanston
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
5.8% poverty · this tract
1.4
Supply constraint
$1,711 rent vs county FMR
4.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Evanston
6.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Evanston
8.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Evanston
6.1

How Church and Dodge compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Church and Dodge risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 6.26.2This tracttract 809600Evanston: 6.66.6Evanstonparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 31

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 195Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 3.20%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.0%Peak (2004)
  • 14Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170318096002001: 10 filings (1.88/100 renter HHs)2002: 10 filings (1.88/100 renter HHs)2003: 14 filings (2.64/100 renter HHs)2004: 16 filings (3.01/100 renter HHs)2005: 10 filings (2.36/100 renter HHs)2006: 14 filings (3.31/100 renter HHs)2007: 13 filings (3.07/100 renter HHs)2008: 15 filings (3.55/100 renter HHs)2009: 11 filings (2.60/100 renter HHs)2010: 16 filings (3.86/100 renter HHs)2011: 9 filings (2.70/100 renter HHs)2012: 15 filings (4.50/100 renter HHs)2013: 12 filings (3.60/100 renter HHs)2014: 16 filings (4.80/100 renter HHs)2015: 14 filings (4.20/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 40% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Church and Dodge. 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 Church and Dodge

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10.

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 195 filings here across 15 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2004 at 3.0% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 3.2% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #17,132 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031809600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031809600?

Census tract 17031809600 in the Church and Dodge neighborhood scores 6.2/10 (Elevated 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 17031809600?

Median gross rent is $1,711/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031809600?

5.8% of residents in tract 17031809600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,226.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031809600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 31th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 42th, household 45th, minority 74th, housing 11th.
Q5

Is tract 17031809600 considered part of Church and Dodge?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031809600 fall within Church and Dodge (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031809600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 195 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031809600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.20% of renter households, peaking at 3.0% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031809600 struggle to pay rent?

About 13.5% 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. 7.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031809600 compare to Evanston overall?

Tract 17031809600 scores 6.2/10, lower than the parent city of Evanston at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Evanston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 17031809600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 22% 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

Highest-risk tracts in Evanston

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

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