Pulaski Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031241500 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,823 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 17031241500 sits in the Pulaski Park area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.3/10. Population here is 2,823. 19% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well under the Cook County average of 45.6%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chicago and the region
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Why Pulaski Park scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Pulaski Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 14%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 43%Racial/ethnic minority
- 42%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)
- 178Total filings over 15 yrs
- 1.46%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.8%Peak (2001)
- 2Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Pulaski 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.
- 7.2%Housing insecurity
- 3.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.5%Food insecurity
- 4.2%SNAP enrollment
- 4.4%Transit barriers
- 5.3%No health insurance
- 13.9%Frequent mental distress
- 13.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Pulaski Park
At $2,444 a month, rents run 70% over what the rest of Chicago commands. The voucher gap is 38.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 8.9/10.
Disability prevalence runs 13.4% against 31.5% nationally. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.3/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
Food insecurity runs 6.5% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 178 evictions over 15 years of observation.
It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. The worst year on record was 2001, when 2.8% 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 1.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 1.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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