Kelvyn Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031200200 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,435 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 17031200200 covers part of the Kelvyn Park area of Chicago, IL, and scores 7.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,435. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9279, -87.7356 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kelvyn Park scores 7.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Kelvyn Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 83
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 75%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 22%Grade B
- 49%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.
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)
- 544Total filings over 15 yrs
- 3.85%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.5%Peak (2015)
- 53Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Kelvyn Park. 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.
- 26.0%Housing insecurity
- 13.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 32.5%Food insecurity
- 24.9%SNAP enrollment
- 14.1%Transit barriers
- 26.7%No health insurance
- 16.3%Frequent mental distress
- 32.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Kelvyn Park
Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Adults with no health insurance runs 26.7% against 11.3% nationally. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2/10.
SNAP participation runs 24.9% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 544 filings here across 15 tracked years. Average gross rent is $1,239, 14% below the Chicago average.
Filings peaked in 2015 at 5.5% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 3.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter.
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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