Princeton Park Eviction Risk: High , Chicago
Tract 17031730100 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,669 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 8.1/10, tract 17031730100 in the Princeton Park area of Chicago, IL reads high for landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 53%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.7252, -87.6384 · click any tract to drill in
Why Princeton Park scores 8.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Princeton Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 69
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 61%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 28%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
- 60%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)
- 95Total filings over 15 yrs
- 4.88%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.6%Peak (2014)
- 10Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Princeton Park. 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.
- 26.3%Housing insecurity
- 17.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 32.7%Food insecurity
- 33.5%SNAP enrollment
- 15.2%Transit barriers
- 10.2%No health insurance
- 17.0%Frequent mental distress
- 33.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Princeton Park
61% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Cook County average of 45.6%. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Housing insecurity runs 26.3% against 14.2% nationally. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
The filing record is not thin: 95 evictions over 15 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2014, when 6.6% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Chicago. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 4.9% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #7,382 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 16% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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