South Brighton Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031580800 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,096 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Tract 17031580800 sits in the South Brighton area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.7/10. 26% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Cook County average of 45.6%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.8102, -87.6866 · click any tract to drill in
Why South Brighton scores 6.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow South Brighton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 66
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 89%Socioeconomic
- 28%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 88%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.
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)
- 89Total filings over 15 yrs
- 2.05%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.1%Peak (2015)
- 11Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within South Brighton. 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.
- 25.7%Housing insecurity
- 11.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 31.0%Food insecurity
- 20.3%SNAP enrollment
- 12.8%Transit barriers
- 29.8%No health insurance
- 15.7%Frequent mental distress
- 30.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in South Brighton
The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 29.8% against 11.3% nationally.
Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,015, 30% below the Chicago average. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
Housing insecurity runs 25.7% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 89 filings here across 15 tracked years. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.6 points.
The worst year on record was 2015, when 3.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 2.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 6.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $67,679, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
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.
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