Church and Dodge Eviction Risk: Elevated , Evanston
Tract 17031809600 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,226 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 6.2/10, tract 17031809600 in the Church and Dodge area of Evanston, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,226 residents. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.4/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Evanston and the region
Centroid at 42.0447, -87.6999 · click any tract to drill in
Why Church and Dodge scores 6.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Church and Dodge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 31
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 45%Household composition
- 74%Racial/ethnic minority
- 11%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 58%Grade C
- 22%Grade D · redlined
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.
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)
- 195Total filings over 15 yrs
- 3.20%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.0%Peak (2004)
- 14Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Church and Dodge. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.5%Housing insecurity
- 7.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.2%Food insecurity
- 12.2%SNAP enrollment
- 7.6%Transit barriers
- 8.8%No health insurance
- 13.8%Frequent mental distress
- 23.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Church and Dodge
Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10.
Against Cook County at 45.6%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 195 filings here across 15 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2004 at 3.0% of renter households. 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 3.2% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #17,132 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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