Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally
Peterson Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031020701 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,728 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi
17031020701 is a census tract in the Peterson Park area of Chicago, IL. It scores 6/10 for landlords. Population here is 1,728. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 72%
Tract context
Occupied units748
Renter share28.5%
SVI overall0.48
Poverty rate8.7%
Median income$101,250
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
26
th percentile
Low
Within county
47
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
74
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9869, -87.7037 · click any tract to drill in
Why Peterson Park scores 6
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
8.7% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$1,675 rent vs county FMR
4.5
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 Peterson Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 48
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 63%Socioeconomic
- 35%Household composition
- 55%Racial/ethnic minority
- 32%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 84%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 63Total filings over 14 yrs
- 1.43%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.2%Peak (2012)
- 2Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 33% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Peterson Park. 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.
- 8.9%Housing insecurity
- 4.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.3%Food insecurity
- 7.9%SNAP enrollment
- 5.5%Transit barriers
- 7.5%No health insurance
- 11.9%Frequent mental distress
- 21.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Peterson Park
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
Against Cook County at 45.6%, 54% of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.2/10.
At $1,675 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Chicago commands. Court records carry 63 eviction filings across 14 observed years. SNAP participation runs 7.9% against 15.2% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2012, when 5.2% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 1.4% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031020701
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031020701?
Census tract 17031020701 in the Peterson Park neighborhood scores 6/10 (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 17031020701?
Median gross rent is $1,675/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031020701?
8.7% of residents in tract 17031020701 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,728.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031020701?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 48th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 63th, household 35th, minority 55th, housing 32th.
Q5
Is tract 17031020701 considered part of Peterson Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031020701 fall within Peterson Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031020701?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 63 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 17031020701 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.43% of renter households, peaking at 5.2% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031020701 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.9% 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. 4.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031020701 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031020701 scores 6/10, lower 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 17031020701 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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