Within parent city
33
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #16,032 of 84,120 nationally
Alsip Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 17031823302 · Cook County, IL · pop 5,705 · 93% of tract blocks fall in Alsip
With a score of 6.4/10, tract 17031823302 in Alsip, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,705 residents. 32% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
6.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 27%
Owners 58%
Tract context
Occupied units2,598
Renter share42.6%
SVI overall0.75
Poverty rate8.5%
Median income$55,850
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
52
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
77
th percentile
High
National
81
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Alsip and the region
Centroid at 41.6608, -87.7233 · click any tract to drill in
Why Alsip scores 6.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Alsip
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
8.5% poverty · this tract
2.1
Supply constraint
$1,069 rent vs county FMR
1.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Alsip
7.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Alsip
7.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Alsip
6.7
How Alsip compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 75
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 77%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 53%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 1%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.
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)
- 762Total filings over 15 yrs
- 4.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.5%Peak (2002)
- 64Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 18.8%Housing insecurity
- 10.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.1%Food insecurity
- 19.5%SNAP enrollment
- 10.4%Transit barriers
- 12.3%No health insurance
- 16.4%Frequent mental distress
- 29.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Alsip
The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.1/10. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, economic stress reads 2.1/10.
On the high side, local political climate reads 7.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 762 filings here across 15 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2002 at 5.5% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 4.2% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 81% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.7/10.
Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031823302
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031823302?
Census tract 17031823302 in Alsip scores 6.4/10 (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 17031823302?
Median gross rent is $1,069/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031823302?
8.5% of residents in tract 17031823302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,705.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031823302?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 75th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 75th, household 77th, minority 73th, housing 53th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031823302?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 762 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031823302 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.16% of renter households, peaking at 5.5% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 17031823302 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.8% 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. 10.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 17031823302 compare to Alsip overall?
Tract 17031823302 scores 6.4/10, higher than the parent city of Alsip at 6.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Alsip; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 17031823302 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. 1% 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 Alsip
Top eight tracts in Alsip ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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