Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally

Forest Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Tract 17031700502 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,656 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi

Tract 17031700502 sits in the Forest Hill area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. Population here is 3,656. The severe-burden share is 58%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score

5.8

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 15% Stable renters 2% Owners 83%

Tract context

Occupied units1,127

Renter share16.8%

SVI overall0.70

Poverty rate7.1%

Median income$97,624

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.7389, -87.6888 · click any tract to drill in

Why Forest Hill scores 5.8

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

7.1% poverty · this tract

1.8

Supply constraint

$1,742 rent vs county FMR

4.9

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 Forest Hill compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 70

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

54%Socioeconomic
61%Household composition
95%Racial/ethnic minority
69%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
1%Grade B
0%Grade C
23%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)

102Total filings over 15 yrs
6.76%Avg annual filing rate
19.8%Peak (2013)
6Filings in 2015 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2001 to 2015

Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 months.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Forest Hill. 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.

18.6%Housing insecurity
11.1%Utility-shutoff threat
21.6%Food insecurity
19.4%SNAP enrollment
10.1%Transit barriers
8.0%No health insurance
14.2%Frequent mental distress
28.9%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Forest Hill

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 88% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10.

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. At $1,742 a month, rents run 21% over what the rest of Chicago commands.

Court records carry 102 eviction filings across 15 observed years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 19.8% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 6.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #20,506 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031700502

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031700502?

Census tract 17031700502 in the Forest Hill neighborhood scores 5.8/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 17031700502?

Median gross rent is $1,742/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 88% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031700502?

7.1% of residents in tract 17031700502 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,656.

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031700502?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 70th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 54th, household 61th, minority 95th, housing 69th.

Is tract 17031700502 considered part of Forest Hill?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031700502 fall within Forest Hill (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031700502?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 102 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031700502 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.76% of renter households, peaking at 19.8% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

What share of households in tract 17031700502 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.6% 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. 11.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 17031700502 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031700502 scores 5.8/10, 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.

Was tract 17031700502 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. 23% 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 Chicago

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

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org