Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #9,927 of 84,120 nationally
Worth Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 17031823101 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,317 · 98% of tract blocks fall in Worth
Tract 17031823101 sits in Worth, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.6/10. It is home to 4,317 residents. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.3/10.
Risk score
7.6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 71%
Tract context
Occupied units1,649
Renter share28.7%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate16.3%
Median income$55,637
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
71
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
88
th percentile
High
National
88
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Worth and the region
Centroid at 41.6909, -87.7928 · click any tract to drill in
Why Worth scores 7.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Worth
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
16.3% poverty · this tract
4.1
Supply constraint
$1,108 rent vs county FMR
1.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Worth
7.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Worth
7.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Worth
8.0
How Worth compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 72%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%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
- 28%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)
- 456Total filings over 15 yrs
- 7.11%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.3%Peak (2004)
- 31Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 35% 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.
- 16.5%Housing insecurity
- 9.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.8%Food insecurity
- 20.4%SNAP enrollment
- 10.3%Transit barriers
- 12.5%No health insurance
- 18.5%Frequent mental distress
- 32.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Worth
Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 54% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8/10.
It sits 1.5 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 456 filings here across 15 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2004, when 8.3% of renter households were served. 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 7.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #9,927 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.8/10. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031823101
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031823101?
Census tract 17031823101 in Worth scores 7.6/10 (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 17031823101?
Median gross rent is $1,108/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031823101?
16.3% of residents in tract 17031823101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,317.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031823101?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 72th, minority 37th, housing 86th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031823101?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 456 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031823101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.11% of renter households, peaking at 8.3% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 17031823101 struggle to pay rent?
About 16.5% 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. 9.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 17031823101 compare to Worth overall?
Tract 17031823101 scores 7.6/10, higher than the parent city of Worth at 6.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Worth; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 17031823101 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. 28% 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 Worth
Top eight tracts in Worth ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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