North Chicago Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 17097862902 · Lake County, IL · pop 2,754
Tract 17097862902, home to 2,754 residents in North Chicago, scores 5.8/10 for landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #26,439 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 32% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 19% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,028 a month against an average household income of $55,455 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 71% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across North Chicago and the region
Centroid at 42.3305, -87.8491 · click any tract to drill in
Why North Chicago scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow North Chicago compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 51%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 30.4%Housing insecurity
- 18.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 39.6%Food insecurity
- 36.9%SNAP enrollment
- 17.8%Transit barriers
- 25.2%No health insurance
- 18.9%Frequent mental distress
- 38.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in North Chicago
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 9.8/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from North Chicago eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Lake County average of 5.3 and above the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 30.4% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 18.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 85th 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.
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Top eight tracts in North Chicago ranked by composite eviction-risk score.