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Neighborhood · Ranked #7,382 of 84,120 nationally

South Branch Addition Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Tract 17031340500 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,558 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi

17031340500 is a census tract in the South Branch Addition area of Chicago, IL. It scores 8.1/10 for landlords. Average gross rent is $621, 57% below the Chicago average.

Risk score
8.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 42% Owners 37%
Tract context
Occupied units971
Renter share62.8%
SVI overall0.70
Poverty rate33.4%
Median income$61,018

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 6 tracts In South Branch Addition
Very High
Within parent city
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#30 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Very High
Within county
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#81 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Very High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.8345, -87.6329 · click any tract to drill in

Why South Branch Addition scores 8.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
33.4% poverty · this tract
8.4
Supply constraint
$621 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 South Branch Addition compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
South Branch Addition risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.18.1This tracttract 340500Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 70

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 134Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 1.35%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.6%Peak (2001)
  • 8Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170313405002001: 24 filings (3.62/100 renter HHs)2002: 7 filings (1.06/100 renter HHs)2003: 9 filings (1.36/100 renter HHs)2004: 17 filings (2.56/100 renter HHs)2005: 4 filings (0.59/100 renter HHs)2006: 3 filings (0.44/100 renter HHs)2007: 12 filings (1.78/100 renter HHs)2008: 6 filings (0.89/100 renter HHs)2009: 6 filings (0.89/100 renter HHs)2010: 10 filings (1.47/100 renter HHs)2011: 5 filings (0.78/100 renter HHs)2012: 5 filings (0.78/100 renter HHs)2013: 6 filings (0.94/100 renter HHs)2014: 12 filings (1.88/100 renter HHs)2015: 8 filings (1.25/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 67% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within South Branch Addition. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in South Branch Addition

The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10. roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Cook County average of 45.6%.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running hot, economic stress reads 8.4/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 134 filings here across 15 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2001 at 3.6% of renter households. 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 1.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #7,382 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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 17031340500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031340500?

Census tract 17031340500 in the South Branch Addition 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 17031340500?

Median gross rent is $621/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 34% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031340500?

33.4% of residents in tract 17031340500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,558.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031340500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 70th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 67th, household 69th, minority 68th, housing 60th.
Q5

Is tract 17031340500 considered part of South Branch Addition?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031340500 fall within South Branch Addition (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031340500?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 134 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031340500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.35% of renter households, peaking at 3.6% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031340500 struggle to pay rent?

About 12.4% 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. 7.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031340500 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031340500 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 17031340500 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. 69% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Chicago

Top eight tracts in Chicago ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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