Within neighborhood
88
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #7,382 of 84,120 nationally
Marshall Square Eviction Risk: High , Chicago
Tract 17031300900 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,937 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Tract 17031300900 sits in the Marshall Square area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.1/10. Population here is 3,937. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.9/10.
Risk score
8.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 50%
Tract context
Occupied units1,647
Renter share50.2%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate39.8%
Median income$34,259
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
99
th percentile
Very High
Within county
95
th percentile
Very High
Within state
100
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.8482, -87.7027 · click any tract to drill in
Why Marshall Square 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
39.8% poverty · this tract
9.9
Supply constraint
$838 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 Marshall Square 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.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 100%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.
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)
- 339Total filings over 15 yrs
- 2.53%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.7%Peak (2010)
- 31Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 138% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Marshall Square. 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.
- 34.6%Housing insecurity
- 18.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 45.8%Food insecurity
- 38.4%SNAP enrollment
- 19.6%Transit barriers
- 35.9%No health insurance
- 18.0%Frequent mental distress
- 38.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Marshall Square
Food insecurity runs 45.8% against 17.8% nationally. At $838 a month, rents run 42% under what the rest of Chicago commands.
The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Housing insecurity runs 34.6% against 14.2% nationally. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.
The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points.
On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 339 evictions over 15 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2010, when 3.7% of renter households were served.
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 2.5% of renter households face a filing.
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 17031300900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031300900?
Census tract 17031300900 in the Marshall Square 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 17031300900?
Median gross rent is $838/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031300900?
39.8% of residents in tract 17031300900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,937.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031300900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 96th, minority 96th, housing 81th.
Q5
Is tract 17031300900 considered part of Marshall Square?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031300900 fall within Marshall Square (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031300900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 339 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031300900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.53% of renter households, peaking at 3.7% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031300900 struggle to pay rent?
About 34.6% 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. 18.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031300900 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031300900 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 17031300900 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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