Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Edison Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031090200 · Cook County, IL · pop 6,505 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
With a score of 5.3/10, tract 17031090200 in the Edison Park area of Chicago, IL reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 75%
Tract context
Occupied units2,648
Renter share25.3%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate6.0%
Median income$129,787
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
11
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
30
th percentile
Low
Within state
59
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 42.0056, -87.8131 · click any tract to drill in
Why Edison Park scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
6.0% poverty · this tract
1.5
Supply constraint
$1,659 rent vs county FMR
4.4
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 Edison Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 15
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 8%Socioeconomic
- 15%Household composition
- 33%Racial/ethnic minority
- 47%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 98%Grade B
- 1%Grade C
- 0%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.
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)
- 127Total filings over 15 yrs
- 1.20%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.3%Peak (2012)
- 5Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 55% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Edison 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.
- 7.8%Housing insecurity
- 4.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.3%Food insecurity
- 6.3%SNAP enrollment
- 4.8%Transit barriers
- 5.8%No health insurance
- 13.5%Frequent mental distress
- 20.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Edison Park
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.5/10.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Food insecurity runs 8.3% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 6.3% against 15.2% nationally.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 127 filings here across 15 tracked years. At $1,659 a month, rents run 15% over what the rest of Chicago commands. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 2.3% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
In a typical year about 1.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031090200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031090200?
Census tract 17031090200 in the Edison Park neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (Moderate 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 17031090200?
Median gross rent is $1,659/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031090200?
6.0% of residents in tract 17031090200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,505.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031090200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 8th, household 15th, minority 33th, housing 47th.
Q5
Is tract 17031090200 considered part of Edison Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031090200 fall within Edison Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031090200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 127 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031090200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.20% of renter households, peaking at 2.3% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031090200 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.8% 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. 4.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031090200 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031090200 scores 5.3/10, lower 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 17031090200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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.
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