Within neighborhood
29
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #7,382 of 84,120 nationally
Fifth City Eviction Risk: High , Chicago
Tract 17031836800 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,635 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
17031836800 is a census tract in the Fifth City area of Chicago, IL. It scores 8.1/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,635. Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
8.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 43%
Stable renters 40%
Owners 17%
Tract context
Occupied units1,050
Renter share83.5%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate56.3%
Median income$22,642
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
97
th percentile
Very High
Within county
81
th percentile
High
Within state
100
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.8851, -87.7150 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fifth City scores 8.1
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
56.3% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$834 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 Fifth City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 70%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 3%Grade C
- 50%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)
- 927Total filings over 15 yrs
- 8.52%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.5%Peak (2014)
- 57Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Fifth City. 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.
- 45.6%Housing insecurity
- 36.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 61.4%Food insecurity
- 69.3%SNAP enrollment
- 31.1%Transit barriers
- 21.8%No health insurance
- 24.1%Frequent mental distress
- 47.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Fifth City
What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Food insecurity runs 61.4% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 56%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
At $834 a month, rents run 42% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Annualized rent equals 44% of average household income of $22,642, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. This is renter territory: 84% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1.
Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 52% of renters here are cost-burdened. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.8% against 11.3% nationally.
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 17031836800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031836800?
Census tract 17031836800 in the Fifth City 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 17031836800?
Median gross rent is $834/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031836800?
56.3% of residents in tract 17031836800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,635.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031836800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 100th, household 70th, minority 96th, housing 88th.
Q5
Is tract 17031836800 considered part of Fifth City?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031836800 fall within Fifth City (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031836800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 927 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031836800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.52% of renter households, peaking at 13.5% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031836800 struggle to pay rent?
About 45.6% 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. 36.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031836800 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031836800 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 17031836800 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. 50% 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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