Within neighborhood
80
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #7,382 of 84,120 nationally
Smith Park Eviction Risk: High , Chicago
Tract 17031837100 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,515 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
17031837100 is a census tract in the Smith Park area of Chicago, IL. It scores 8.1/10 for landlords. Cost burden runs 75% here against 45.6% across Cook County.
Risk score
8.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37%
Stable renters 12%
Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units708
Renter share49.3%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate22.5%
Median income$61,351
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
81
th percentile
High
Within county
81
th percentile
High
Within state
100
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.8857, -87.6987 · click any tract to drill in
Why Smith Park scores 8.1
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
22.5% poverty · this tract
5.6
Supply constraint
$1,060 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Smith Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 89%Socioeconomic
- 83%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 90%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)
- 268Total filings over 15 yrs
- 3.84%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.8%Peak (2002)
- 14Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 36% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Smith 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.
- 23.1%Housing insecurity
- 14.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 28.7%Food insecurity
- 27.9%SNAP enrollment
- 13.5%Transit barriers
- 12.8%No health insurance
- 16.6%Frequent mental distress
- 32.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Smith Park
Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10.
Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
At $1,060 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Chicago commands. SNAP participation runs 27.9% against 15.2% nationally.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Housing insecurity runs 23.1% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 268 filings here across 15 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2002 at 7.8% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 3.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 91st 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 17031837100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031837100?
Census tract 17031837100 in the Smith Park neighborhood scores 8.1/10 (High 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 17031837100?
Median gross rent is $1,060/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 75% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031837100?
22.5% of residents in tract 17031837100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,515.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031837100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 89th, household 83th, minority 88th, housing 84th.
Q5
Is tract 17031837100 considered part of Smith Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031837100 fall within Smith Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031837100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 268 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031837100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.84% of renter households, peaking at 7.8% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031837100 struggle to pay rent?
About 23.1% 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. 14.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031837100 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031837100 scores 8.1/10, 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 17031837100 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 90% 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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