Elgin Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 17089851302 · Kane County, IL · pop 3,341 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
17089851302 is a census tract in the Elgin Historic District area of Elgin, IL. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. Food insecurity runs 36.6% against 17.8% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Elgin and the region
Centroid at 42.0458, -88.2764 · click any tract to drill in
Why Elgin Historic District scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Elgin Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 36%Housing & transportation
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)
- 35Total filings over 3 yrs
- 2.45%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.4%Peak (2009)
- 10Filings in 2011 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Elgin Historic District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 28.8%Housing insecurity
- 15.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 36.6%Food insecurity
- 30.9%SNAP enrollment
- 16.4%Transit barriers
- 29.9%No health insurance
- 18.8%Frequent mental distress
- 35.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Elgin Historic District
SNAP participation runs 30.9% against 15.2% nationally. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 2/10.
37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Kane County average of 45.5%. It sits 1.3 points above the Kane County average of 4.1.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 35 filings here across 3 tracked years. At $1,518 a month, rents run 12% over what the rest of Elgin commands.
The worst year on record was 2009, when 2.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.5% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. The legal-climate inputs (statute speed, court posture, rent-regulation exposure) come from Elgin eviction risk as a whole. Only the economic and supply signals are measured inside this tract.
Social vulnerability reads 8.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $69,643.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 17089851302
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Highest-risk tracts in Elgin
Top eight tracts in Elgin ranked by composite eviction-risk score.