Decatur Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 17115000900 · Macon County, IL · pop 1,596
Census tract 17115000900 covers Decatur, home to 1,596 residents. For landlords it grades 5.8/10, a moderate reading. That is riskier than roughly 69% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 30% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 23% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $747 a month while the average household earns $33,816 a year, roughly 27% of income at the averages. Renters make up 58% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Decatur and the region
Centroid at 39.8568, -88.9369 · click any tract to drill in
Why Decatur scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Decatur compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 71
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 55%Household composition
- 78%Racial/ethnic minority
- 27%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 49%Grade C
- 19%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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.
- 37.0%Housing insecurity
- 30.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 51.9%Food insecurity
- 61.7%SNAP enrollment
- 26.0%Transit barriers
- 16.4%No health insurance
- 25.1%Frequent mental distress
- 48.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Decatur
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 Decatur eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Macon County average of 5.2 and above the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 19% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 71st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Decatur
Top eight tracts in Decatur ranked by composite eviction-risk score.