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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chicago and the region
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Why Oakwood Shores scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Oakwood Shores compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 47
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 62%Socioeconomic
- 26%Household composition
- 100%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%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)
- 501Total filings over 15 yrs
- 10.82%Avg annual filing rate
- 19.7%Peak (2002)
- 42Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Oakwood Shores. 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.
- 25.1%Housing insecurity
- 16.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.9%Food insecurity
- 26.8%SNAP enrollment
- 13.3%Transit barriers
- 8.1%No health insurance
- 17.9%Frequent mental distress
- 25.4%Any disability
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.
About tract 17031835800
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