Illinois Medical District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031838200 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,834 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Tract 17031838200 sits in the Illinois eviction laws Medical District area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. It is home to 1,834 residents. Cost burden runs 29% here against 45.6% across Cook County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.8704, -87.6751 · click any tract to drill in
Why Illinois Medical District scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Illinois Medical District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 19
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 33%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 78%Racial/ethnic minority
- 60%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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.
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)
- 47Total filings over 13 yrs
- 1.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.0%Peak (2001)
- 3Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Illinois Medical District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.2%Housing insecurity
- 5.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.9%Food insecurity
- 7.4%SNAP enrollment
- 7.2%Transit barriers
- 7.9%No health insurance
- 14.6%Frequent mental distress
- 18.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Illinois Medical District
The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Disability prevalence runs 18.8% against 31.5% nationally. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.2/10. At $1,733 a month, rents run 20% over what the rest of Chicago commands.
The filing record is not thin: 47 evictions over 13 years of observation. SNAP participation runs 7.4% against 15.2% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2001 at 2.0% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 1.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #20,506 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely.
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.
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