Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #61,558 of 84,120 nationally
Palos Heights Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 17031823605 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,028 · 61% of tract blocks fall in Palos Heights
Census tract 17031823605 covers part of Palos Heights, IL, and scores 3.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. 36% 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
3.3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 83%
Tract context
Occupied units1,511
Renter share17.7%
SVI overall0.26
Poverty rate4.7%
Median income$97,882
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
10
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
19
th percentile
Very Low
National
27
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Palos Heights and the region
Centroid at 41.6675, -87.7754 · click any tract to drill in
Why Palos Heights scores 3.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Palos Heights
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
4.7% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$1,192 rent vs county FMR
1.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Palos Heights
5.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Palos Heights
2.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Palos Heights
4.6
How Palos Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 26
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 14%Socioeconomic
- 29%Household composition
- 36%Racial/ethnic minority
- 56%Housing & transportation
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)
- 173Total filings over 15 yrs
- 4.89%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.3%Peak (2015)
- 21Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 250% 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.
- 9.0%Housing insecurity
- 5.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.0%Food insecurity
- 7.9%SNAP enrollment
- 5.5%Transit barriers
- 6.8%No health insurance
- 13.8%Frequent mental distress
- 25.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Palos Heights
Average gross rent is $1,192, 53% below the Palos Heights average. It sits 2.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.2/10.
roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Cook County average of 45.6%. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.
Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2.1/10. The filing record is not thin: 173 evictions over 15 years of observation.
Food insecurity runs 10.0% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.9% against 15.2% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2015, when 7.3% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 4.9% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #61,558 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 18% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.
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 17031823605
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031823605?
Census tract 17031823605 in Palos Heights scores 3.3/10 (Lower 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 17031823605?
Median gross rent is $1,192/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031823605?
4.7% of residents in tract 17031823605 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,028.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031823605?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 26th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 14th, household 29th, minority 36th, housing 56th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031823605?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 173 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031823605 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.89% of renter households, peaking at 7.3% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 17031823605 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.0% 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. 5.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 17031823605 compare to Palos Heights overall?
Tract 17031823605 scores 3.3/10, lower than the parent city of Palos Heights at 4.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Palos Heights; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Palos Heights
Top eight tracts in Palos Heights ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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