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Neighborhood · Ranked #17,650 of 84,120 nationally

Stony Island Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Tract 17031480400 · Cook County, IL · pop 5,013 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Census tract 17031480400 covers part of the Stony Island Heights area of Chicago, IL, and scores 6.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.4/10.

Risk score
6.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8% Stable renters 10% Owners 82%
Tract context
Occupied units2,357
Renter share17.7%
SVI overall0.37
Poverty rate5.8%
Median income$78,064

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Stony Island Heights
Very Low
Within parent city
27 th percentile
Rank, 27th percentileLowHigh
#578 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Low
Within county
47 th percentile
Rank, 47th percentileLowHigh
#702 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Moderate
Within state
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#829 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.7285, -87.5756 · click any tract to drill in

Why Stony Island Heights scores 6.1

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
5.8% poverty · this tract
1.4
Supply constraint
$1,327 rent vs county FMR
2.5
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 Stony Island Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Stony Island Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 6.16.1This tracttract 480400Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 37

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 306Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 6.15%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.3%Peak (2012)
  • 21Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170314804002001: 23 filings (8.24/100 renter HHs)2002: 23 filings (8.24/100 renter HHs)2003: 24 filings (8.60/100 renter HHs)2004: 20 filings (7.17/100 renter HHs)2005: 14 filings (3.52/100 renter HHs)2006: 11 filings (2.76/100 renter HHs)2007: 22 filings (5.53/100 renter HHs)2008: 13 filings (3.27/100 renter HHs)2009: 23 filings (5.78/100 renter HHs)2010: 20 filings (5.78/100 renter HHs)2011: 20 filings (5.90/100 renter HHs)2012: 28 filings (8.26/100 renter HHs)2013: 20 filings (5.90/100 renter HHs)2014: 24 filings (7.08/100 renter HHs)2015: 21 filings (6.19/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Stony Island Heights. 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 Stony Island Heights

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

The filing record is not thin: 306 evictions over 15 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2012, when 8.3% 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 6.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 79th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 18% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 4.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031480400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031480400?

Census tract 17031480400 in the Stony Island Heights neighborhood scores 6.1/10 (Elevated 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 17031480400?

Median gross rent is $1,327/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031480400?

5.8% of residents in tract 17031480400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,013.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031480400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 37th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 27th, household 46th, minority 100th, housing 28th.
Q5

Is tract 17031480400 considered part of Stony Island Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031480400 fall within Stony Island Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031480400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 306 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031480400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.15% of renter households, peaking at 8.3% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031480400 struggle to pay rent?

About 16.4% 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. 10.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031480400 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031480400 scores 6.1/10, lower 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 17031480400 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 8% 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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