Waukegan Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 17097862402 · Lake County, IL · pop 3,027
How risky is Waukegan for landlords? Census tract 17097862402 scores 5.2/10, the Moderate tier. On the national scale it ranks #45,154 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 47% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $976 monthly, set against $66,840 in average yearly household income, roughly 18% of income at the averages. About 54% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Waukegan and the region
Centroid at 42.3574, -87.8408 · click any tract to drill in
Why Waukegan scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Waukegan compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 82
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 27.9%Housing insecurity
- 15.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.2%Food insecurity
- 28.6%SNAP enrollment
- 15.5%Transit barriers
- 28.4%No health insurance
- 17.4%Frequent mental distress
- 34.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Waukegan
The heaviest input here is economic stress at $1/10. 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 Waukegan 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 Lake County average of 5.3 and in line with the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 27.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 15.0% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 17097862402
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Highest-risk tracts in Waukegan
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