Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #23,808 of 84,120 nationally
Pleasant District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Forest Park
Tract 17031812802 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,826 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
17031812802 is a census tract in the Pleasant District area of Oak Park, IL. It scores 5.5/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,826. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.7/10.
Risk score
5.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 29%
Owners 47%
Tract context
Occupied units1,254
Renter share52.9%
SVI overall0.41
Poverty rate6.7%
Median income$86,569
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
69
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
36
th percentile
Low
Within state
64
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Forest Park and the region
Centroid at 41.8833, -87.7972 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pleasant District scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Forest Park
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
6.7% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,268 rent vs county FMR
2.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Forest Park
5.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Forest Park
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Forest Park
4.6
How Pleasant District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 41
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 20%Socioeconomic
- 71%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 100%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 211Total filings over 15 yrs
- 1.57%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.7%Peak (2015)
- 21Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 62% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Pleasant 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.
- 10.3%Housing insecurity
- 5.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.7%Food insecurity
- 8.4%SNAP enrollment
- 5.9%Transit barriers
- 6.2%No health insurance
- 14.0%Frequent mental distress
- 19.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Pleasant District
The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.8/10.
Average gross rent is $1,268, 20% below the Oak Park average. The filing record is not thin: 211 evictions over 15 years of observation.
Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2015 at 2.7% 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 1.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031812802
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031812802?
Census tract 17031812802 in the Pleasant District neighborhood scores 5.5/10 (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 17031812802?
Median gross rent is $1,268/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031812802?
6.7% of residents in tract 17031812802 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,826.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031812802?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 41th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 20th, household 71th, minority 64th, housing 44th.
Q5
Is tract 17031812802 considered part of Pleasant District?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031812802 fall within Pleasant District (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031812802?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 211 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031812802 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.57% of renter households, peaking at 2.7% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031812802 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.3% 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. 5.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031812802 compare to Forest Park overall?
Tract 17031812802 scores 5.5/10, lower than the parent city of Forest Park at 6.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Forest Park; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 17031812802 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.
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Highest-risk tracts in Forest Park
Top eight tracts in Forest Park ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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