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Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally

Gladstone Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Tract 17031110400 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,501 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Census tract 17031110400 covers part of the Gladstone Park area of Chicago, IL, and scores 5.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.

Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10% Stable renters 20% Owners 70%
Tract context
Occupied units2,057
Renter share30.0%
SVI overall0.51
Poverty rate4.1%
Median income$85,825

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 6 tracts In Gladstone Park
Moderate
Within parent city
21 th percentile
Rank, 21st percentileLowHigh
#625 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Low
Within county
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#794 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Moderate
Within state
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#1,067 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.9730, -87.7726 · click any tract to drill in

Why Gladstone Park scores 5.7

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
4.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,331 rent vs county FMR
2.6
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 Gladstone Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Gladstone Park risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.75.7This tracttract 110400Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 51

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)

  • 181Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 1.67%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.4%Peak (2008)
  • 12Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170311104002001: 7 filings (0.91/100 renter HHs)2002: 9 filings (1.16/100 renter HHs)2003: 16 filings (2.07/100 renter HHs)2004: 7 filings (0.91/100 renter HHs)2005: 10 filings (1.19/100 renter HHs)2006: 10 filings (1.19/100 renter HHs)2007: 4 filings (0.48/100 renter HHs)2008: 20 filings (2.39/100 renter HHs)2009: 18 filings (2.15/100 renter HHs)2010: 11 filings (1.44/100 renter HHs)2011: 13 filings (2.10/100 renter HHs)2012: 12 filings (1.94/100 renter HHs)2013: 13 filings (2.10/100 renter HHs)2014: 19 filings (3.07/100 renter HHs)2015: 12 filings (1.94/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 71% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Gladstone 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Gladstone Park

roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Cook County average of 45.6%. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 181 filings here across 15 tracked years. SNAP participation runs 8.2% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2008 at 2.4% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 1.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #21,564 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,331, close to the Chicago average.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 17031110400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031110400?

Census tract 17031110400 in the Gladstone Park neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (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 17031110400?

Median gross rent is $1,331/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031110400?

4.1% of residents in tract 17031110400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,501.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031110400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 51th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 50th, household 34th, minority 57th, housing 58th.
Q5

Is tract 17031110400 considered part of Gladstone Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031110400 fall within Gladstone Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031110400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 181 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031110400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.67% of renter households, peaking at 2.4% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031110400 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.4% 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. 5.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031110400 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031110400 scores 5.7/10, 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 17031110400 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. 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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