Census Tract · Ranked #22,681 of 84,120 nationally
Oak Lawn Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 17031822400 ·
Cook County, IL · pop 6,012 · 90% of tract blocks fall in Oak Lawn
Tract 17031822400 sits in Oak Lawn eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.6/10. Cost burden runs 69% here against 45.6% across Cook County.
Risk score
5.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%Stable renters 7%Owners 78%
Tract context
Occupied units1,994
Renter share21.5%
SVI overall0.76
Poverty rate18.0%
Median income$67,692
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
92th percentile
#2 of 13 tracts In Oak Lawn
Very High
Within county
37th percentile
#838 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Low
Within state
65th percentile
#1,130 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
National
73th percentile
#22,681 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Oak Lawn and the region
Centroid at 41.7229, -87.7885 · click any tract to drill in
Why Oak Lawn scores 5.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Oak Lawn
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
18.0% poverty · this tract
4.5
Supply constraint
$1,455 rent vs county FMR
3.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Oak Lawn
7.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Oak Lawn
4.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Oak Lawn
6.1
How Oak Lawn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 76
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
72%Socioeconomic
73%Household composition
45%Racial/ethnic minority
74%Housing & transportation
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
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
17.7%Housing insecurity
10.8%Utility-shutoff threat
23.9%Food insecurity
23.1%SNAP enrollment
11.3%Transit barriers
13.4%No health insurance
18.5%Frequent mental distress
33.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Oak Lawn
The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The dominant input is local political climate at 7.8/10.
Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.3/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 270 filings here across 15 tracked years. SNAP participation runs 23.1% against 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2009, when 7.4% of renter households were served.
Average gross rent is $1,455, 9% above the Oak Lawn average. In a typical year about 3.1% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
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 17031822400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031822400?
Census tract 17031822400 in Oak Lawn scores 5.6/10 (Moderate 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 17031822400?
Median gross rent is $1,455/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 69% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031822400?
18.0% of residents in tract 17031822400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,012.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031822400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 76th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 73th, minority 45th, housing 74th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031822400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 270 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031822400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.13% of renter households, peaking at 7.4% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 17031822400 struggle to pay rent?
About 17.7% 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. 10.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 17031822400 compare to Oak Lawn overall?
Tract 17031822400 scores 5.6/10, higher than the parent city of Oak Lawn at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Oak Lawn eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Oak Lawn
Top eight tracts in Oak Lawn ranked by composite eviction-risk score.