Skip to content
Neighborhood · Ranked #7,382 of 84,120 nationally

Garfield Manor Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Tract 17031660400 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,719 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Census tract 17031660400 covers part of the Garfield Manor area of Chicago, IL, and scores 8.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs 62% here against 45.6% across Cook County.

Risk score
8.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32% Stable renters 19% Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units1,521
Renter share50.6%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate21.2%
Median income$50,710

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Garfield Manor
Very High
Within parent city
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#262 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Elevated
Within county
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#179 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.7825, -87.7080 · click any tract to drill in

Why Garfield Manor scores 8.1

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
21.2% poverty · this tract
5.3
Supply constraint
$985 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 Garfield Manor compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Garfield Manor risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.18.1This tracttract 660400Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 85

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)

  • 440Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 5.31%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.6%Peak (2009)
  • 25Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170316604002001: 30 filings (5.59/100 renter HHs)2002: 21 filings (3.91/100 renter HHs)2003: 38 filings (7.08/100 renter HHs)2004: 33 filings (6.15/100 renter HHs)2005: 19 filings (3.63/100 renter HHs)2006: 16 filings (3.05/100 renter HHs)2007: 20 filings (3.82/100 renter HHs)2008: 34 filings (6.49/100 renter HHs)2009: 40 filings (7.63/100 renter HHs)2010: 21 filings (3.53/100 renter HHs)2011: 36 filings (6.17/100 renter HHs)2012: 40 filings (6.86/100 renter HHs)2013: 37 filings (6.35/100 renter HHs)2014: 30 filings (5.15/100 renter HHs)2015: 25 filings (4.29/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 17% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Garfield Manor. 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 Garfield Manor

Food insecurity runs 39.9% against 17.8% nationally. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. At $985 a month, rents run 32% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Housing insecurity runs 31.1% against 14.2% nationally.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Court records carry 440 eviction filings across 15 observed years. The worst year on record was 2009, when 7.6% 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.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 17031660400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031660400?

Census tract 17031660400 in the Garfield Manor neighborhood scores 8.1/10 (High 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 17031660400?

Median gross rent is $985/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031660400?

21.2% of residents in tract 17031660400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,719.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031660400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 50th, minority 97th, housing 46th.
Q5

Is tract 17031660400 considered part of Garfield Manor?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031660400 fall within Garfield Manor (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031660400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 440 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031660400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.31% of renter households, peaking at 7.6% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031660400 struggle to pay rent?

About 31.1% 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. 15.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031660400 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031660400 scores 8.1/10, 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 17031660400 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 Chicago

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

Related