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Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally

Oak Park Arts District Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 17031814600 · Cook County, IL · pop 5,956 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

17031814600 is a census tract in the Oak Park Arts District area of Berwyn, IL. It scores 5.7/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10% Stable renters 11% Owners 79%
Tract context
Occupied units1,755
Renter share21.5%
SVI overall0.69
Poverty rate11.8%
Median income$98,420

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Oak Park Arts District
Very High
Within parent city
11 th percentile
Rank, 11th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 10 tracts In Oak Park
Very Low
Within county
39 th percentile
Rank, 39th percentileLowHigh
#809 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Low
Within state
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#1,067 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Oak Park and the region

Centroid at 41.8617, -87.7851 · click any tract to drill in

Why Oak Park Arts District scores 5.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Oak Park
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
11.8% poverty · this tract
2.9
Supply constraint
$1,067 rent vs county FMR
1.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Oak Park
7.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Oak Park
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Oak Park
6.2

How Oak Park Arts District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Oak Park Arts District risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.75.7This tracttract 814600Oak Park: 6.26.2Oak Parkparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 69

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)

  • 316Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 4.02%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.8%Peak (2013)
  • 28Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170318146002001: 10 filings (1.94/100 renter HHs)2002: 20 filings (3.88/100 renter HHs)2003: 20 filings (3.88/100 renter HHs)2004: 16 filings (3.10/100 renter HHs)2005: 11 filings (2.26/100 renter HHs)2006: 20 filings (4.12/100 renter HHs)2007: 17 filings (3.50/100 renter HHs)2008: 19 filings (3.91/100 renter HHs)2009: 20 filings (4.12/100 renter HHs)2010: 27 filings (4.77/100 renter HHs)2011: 31 filings (5.66/100 renter HHs)2012: 19 filings (3.47/100 renter HHs)2013: 32 filings (5.84/100 renter HHs)2014: 26 filings (4.74/100 renter HHs)2015: 28 filings (5.11/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 180% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Oak Park Arts District. 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 Oak Park Arts District

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.1/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.8/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 316 filings here across 15 tracked years. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.3% against 11.3% nationally. At $1,067 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Berwyn commands.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 5.8% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 4.0% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 74% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 21% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 17031814600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031814600?

Census tract 17031814600 in the Oak Park Arts District neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (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 17031814600?

Median gross rent is $1,067/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031814600?

11.8% of residents in tract 17031814600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,956.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031814600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 69th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 83th, household 68th, minority 83th, housing 23th.
Q5

Is tract 17031814600 considered part of Oak Park Arts District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031814600 fall within Oak Park Arts District (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031814600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 316 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031814600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.02% of renter households, peaking at 5.8% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031814600 struggle to pay rent?

About 20.7% 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. 10.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031814600 compare to Oak Park overall?

Tract 17031814600 scores 5.7/10, lower than the parent city of Oak Park at 6.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Oak Park eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 17031814600 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. 0% 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 Oak Park

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

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