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Neighborhood · Ranked #5,730 of 84,120 nationally

Riverdale Eviction Risk: High

Tract 17031826600 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,872 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Census tract 17031826600 covers part of the Riverdale area of Riverdale, IL, and scores 8.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,872 residents. Severe burden reaches 50%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23% Stable renters 16% Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,535
Renter share38.6%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate32.9%
Median income$48,058

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Riverdale
Moderate
Within parent city
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Riverdale
Moderate
Within county
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Very High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Riverdale and the region

Centroid at 41.6364, -87.6230 · click any tract to drill in

Why Riverdale scores 8.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Riverdale
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
32.9% poverty · this tract
8.2
Supply constraint
$1,223 rent vs county FMR
1.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Riverdale
9.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Riverdale
8.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Riverdale
9.3

How Riverdale compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Riverdale risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.48.4This tracttract 826600Riverdale: 7.07.0Riverdaleparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 93

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. 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)

  • 876Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 7.55%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.0%Peak (2014)
  • 61Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170318266002001: 65 filings (11.52/100 renter HHs)2002: 66 filings (11.70/100 renter HHs)2003: 50 filings (8.86/100 renter HHs)2004: 47 filings (8.33/100 renter HHs)2005: 43 filings (6.17/100 renter HHs)2006: 48 filings (6.89/100 renter HHs)2007: 45 filings (6.45/100 renter HHs)2008: 56 filings (8.03/100 renter HHs)2009: 51 filings (7.32/100 renter HHs)2010: 46 filings (6.34/100 renter HHs)2011: 71 filings (6.27/100 renter HHs)2012: 66 filings (5.83/100 renter HHs)2013: 70 filings (6.18/100 renter HHs)2014: 91 filings (8.03/100 renter HHs)2015: 61 filings (5.38/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Riverdale. 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 Riverdale

SNAP participation runs 49.2% against 15.2% nationally. What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 9.4/10.

59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Cook County average of 45.6%. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 9.3/10. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points.

Housing insecurity runs 34.2% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10.

The filing record is not thin: 876 evictions over 15 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2014 at 8.0% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 7.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #5,730 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.4/10.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 17031826600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031826600?

Census tract 17031826600 in the Riverdale neighborhood scores 8.4/10 (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 17031826600?

Median gross rent is $1,223/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 59% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031826600?

32.9% of residents in tract 17031826600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,872.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031826600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 89th, household 82th, minority 99th, housing 84th.
Q5

Is tract 17031826600 considered part of Riverdale?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031826600 fall within Riverdale (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031826600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 876 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031826600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.55% of renter households, peaking at 8.0% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031826600 struggle to pay rent?

About 34.2% 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. 25.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031826600 compare to Riverdale overall?

Tract 17031826600 scores 8.4/10, higher than the parent city of Riverdale at 7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Riverdale; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 17031826600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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 Riverdale

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

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