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Neighborhood · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally

Vet's Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Tract 17031520100 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,062 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi

With a score of 7.8/10, tract 17031520100 in the Vet's Park area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,062 residents. SNAP participation runs 36.4% against 15.2% nationally.

Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17% Stable renters 34% Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units495
Renter share50.7%
SVI overall0.91
Poverty rate17.8%
Median income$58,713

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Vet's Park
Very Low
Within parent city
60 th percentile
Rank, 60th percentileLowHigh
#315 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Elevated
Within county
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#336 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Elevated
Within state
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#348 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.7211, -87.5294 · click any tract to drill in

Why Vet's Park scores 7.8

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
17.8% poverty · this tract
4.5
Supply constraint
$953 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 Vet's Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Vet's Park risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.87.8This tracttract 520100Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 91

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)

  • 92Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 2.23%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.5%Peak (2013)
  • 7Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170315201002001: 10 filings (3.58/100 renter HHs)2002: 4 filings (1.43/100 renter HHs)2003: 9 filings (3.23/100 renter HHs)2004: 7 filings (2.51/100 renter HHs)2005: 2 filings (0.58/100 renter HHs)2006: 3 filings (0.87/100 renter HHs)2007: 3 filings (0.87/100 renter HHs)2008: 9 filings (2.62/100 renter HHs)2009: 4 filings (1.17/100 renter HHs)2010: 5 filings (1.89/100 renter HHs)2011: 6 filings (2.44/100 renter HHs)2012: 7 filings (2.85/100 renter HHs)2013: 11 filings (4.47/100 renter HHs)2014: 5 filings (2.03/100 renter HHs)2015: 7 filings (2.85/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 30% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Vet's 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Vet's Park

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. Average gross rent is $953, 34% below the Chicago average.

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 34% of renters here are cost-burdened. 22% 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, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. The filing record is not thin: 92 evictions over 15 years of observation. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Filings peaked in 2013 at 4.5% 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 2.2% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 9.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031520100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031520100?

Census tract 17031520100 in the Vet's Park neighborhood scores 7.8/10 (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 17031520100?

Median gross rent is $953/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 34% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031520100?

17.8% of residents in tract 17031520100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,062.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031520100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 91th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 81th, minority 94th, housing 64th.
Q5

Is tract 17031520100 considered part of Vet's Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031520100 fall within Vet's Park (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031520100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 92 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031520100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.23% of renter households, peaking at 4.5% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031520100 struggle to pay rent?

About 32.4% 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. 17.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031520100 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031520100 scores 7.8/10, 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 17031520100 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. 16% 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

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

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