Elgin Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 17089851400 · Kane County, IL · pop 6,567 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 17089851400 in the Elgin Historic District area of Elgin, IL reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 6,567 residents. 24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Elgin and the region
Centroid at 42.0285, -88.2675 · 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: 82
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 59%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%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)
- 47Total filings over 3 yrs
- 2.30%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.7%Peak (2009)
- 17Filings 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
- 16.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 36.9%Food insecurity
- 32.2%SNAP enrollment
- 16.7%Transit barriers
- 29.4%No health insurance
- 18.9%Frequent mental distress
- 36.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Elgin Historic District
Adults with no health insurance runs 29.4% against 11.3% nationally. SNAP participation runs 32.2% against 15.2% nationally.
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 2/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.3/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Kane County average of 4.1.
39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Kane County average of 45.5%. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 47 filings here across 3 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2009 at 2.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 2.3% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. 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.
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.
About tract 17089851400
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Highest-risk tracts in Elgin
Top eight tracts in Elgin ranked by composite eviction-risk score.