Elgin Historic District Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 17089851400 · Kane County, IL · pop 6,567 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
The Moderate-tier score of 5.1/10 for census tract 17089851400 reflects conditions in the Elgin Historic District area of Elgin, Illinois. It lands near the 43rd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
39% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,287 a month against an average household income of $74,231 a year, roughly 21% of income at the averages. Renters make up 34% of occupied homes.
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 3.7
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
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 4.9/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Elgin eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Kane County average of 5.3 and below the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 47 eviction filings here over 3 tracked years, with about 2.3% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 2.7% of renter households in 2009.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 82nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 17089851400
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Highest-risk tracts in Elgin
Top eight tracts in Elgin ranked by composite eviction-risk score.