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Neighborhood · Ranked #18,240 of 84,120 nationally

Oakwood Shores Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Tract 17031835800 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,852 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

Tract 17031835800, home to 1,852 residents in the Oakwood Shores area of Chicago, scores 5.9/10 for landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 72% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

34% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 11% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,574 monthly, set against $84,500 in average yearly household income, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 52% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
5.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 35% Owners 47%
Tract context
Occupied units916
Renter share52.4%
SVI overall0.47
Poverty rate19.8%
Median income$84,500

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
8 th percentile
Rank, 8th percentileLowHigh
#13 of 14 tracts In Oakwood Shores
Very Low
Within parent city
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#385 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Moderate
Within county
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#448 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Elevated
Within state
81 th percentile
Rank, 81st percentileLowHigh
#616 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.8130, -87.6187 · click any tract to drill in

Why Oakwood Shores scores 5.5

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
19.8% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$1,574 rent vs county FMR
3.9
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 Oakwood Shores compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Oakwood Shores risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.55.5This tracttract 835800Chicago: 5.75.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 4.54.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.83.8Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 47

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

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.

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)

  • 501Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 10.82%Avg annual filing rate
  • 19.7%Peak (2002)
  • 42Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170318358002001: 57 filings (17.54/100 renter HHs)2002: 64 filings (19.69/100 renter HHs)2003: 37 filings (11.38/100 renter HHs)2004: 24 filings (7.38/100 renter HHs)2005: 30 filings (14.93/100 renter HHs)2006: 16 filings (7.96/100 renter HHs)2007: 18 filings (8.96/100 renter HHs)2008: 23 filings (11.44/100 renter HHs)2009: 24 filings (11.94/100 renter HHs)2010: 36 filings (8.63/100 renter HHs)2011: 33 filings (8.15/100 renter HHs)2012: 31 filings (7.65/100 renter HHs)2013: 30 filings (7.41/100 renter HHs)2014: 36 filings (8.89/100 renter HHs)2015: 42 filings (10.37/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 26% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Oakwood Shores. 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 Oakwood Shores

The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Chicago eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Cook County average of 5.7 and above the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 47th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.

In CDC survey modeling, about 25.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 16.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031835800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031835800?

Census tract 17031835800 in the Oakwood Shores neighborhood scores 5.5/10 (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 17031835800?

Median gross rent is $1,574/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 34% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031835800?

19.8% of residents in tract 17031835800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,852.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031835800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 47th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 62th, household 26th, minority 100th, housing 19th.
Q5

Is tract 17031835800 considered part of Oakwood Shores?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031835800 fall within Oakwood Shores (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031835800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 501 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031835800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.82% of renter households, peaking at 19.7% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031835800 struggle to pay rent?

About 25.1% 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. 16.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031835800 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031835800 scores 5.5/10, right in line with the parent city of Chicago at 5.7/10. 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 17031835800 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. 100% 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

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