Within neighborhood
71
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #12,481 of 84,120 nationally
Palmer Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031221300 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,011 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
With a score of 7.1/10, tract 17031221300 in the Palmer Square area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,011. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10.
Risk score
7.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27%
Stable renters 48%
Owners 25%
Tract context
Occupied units1,479
Renter share75.1%
SVI overall0.60
Poverty rate17.7%
Median income$87,432
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
47
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
64
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
83
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9211, -87.6998 · click any tract to drill in
Why Palmer Square scores 7.1
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
17.7% poverty · this tract
4.4
Supply constraint
$1,637 rent vs county FMR
4.3
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 Palmer Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 70%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)
- 225Total filings over 15 yrs
- 1.50%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.0%Peak (2001)
- 7Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 83% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Palmer 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.
- 13.3%Housing insecurity
- 7.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.6%Food insecurity
- 11.3%SNAP enrollment
- 7.9%Transit barriers
- 10.6%No health insurance
- 16.6%Frequent mental distress
- 20.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Palmer Square
This is renter territory: 75% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
36% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Cook County average of 45.6%. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. It sits 1.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Court records carry 225 eviction filings across 15 observed years.
At $1,637 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Chicago commands. The worst year on record was 2001, when 4.0% 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 1.5% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
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 17031221300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031221300?
Census tract 17031221300 in the Palmer Square neighborhood scores 7.1/10 (Elevated 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 17031221300?
Median gross rent is $1,637/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031221300?
17.7% of residents in tract 17031221300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,011.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031221300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 60th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 5th, minority 70th, housing 81th.
Q5
Is tract 17031221300 considered part of Palmer Square?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031221300 fall within Palmer Square (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031221300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 225 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031221300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.50% of renter households, peaking at 4.0% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031221300 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.3% 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. 7.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031221300 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031221300 scores 7.1/10, 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 17031221300 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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