Leverett Place Eviction Risk: Moderate , Alton
Tract 17119401400 · Madison County, IL · pop 2,996 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
For landlords sizing up the Leverett Place area of Alton, census tract 17119401400 carries an elevated eviction-risk score of $1/10. That is riskier than roughly 75% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
42% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 20% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $858 monthly, set against $54,222 in average yearly household income, roughly 19% of income at the averages. About 30% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Alton and the region
Centroid at 38.8960, -90.1296 · click any tract to drill in
Why Leverett Place scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Leverett Place compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 62
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 29%Racial/ethnic minority
- 51%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)
- 121Total filings over 11 yrs
- 3.89%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.7%Peak (2011)
- 11Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Leverett Place. 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.
- 14.2%Housing insecurity
- 8.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.3%Food insecurity
- 16.5%SNAP enrollment
- 8.9%Transit barriers
- 8.6%No health insurance
- 19.2%Frequent mental distress
- 34.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Leverett Place
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 8.5/10. 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 Alton, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Madison County average of 5.6 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 14.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 8.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 62nd 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, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 17119401400
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Highest-risk tracts in Alton
Top eight tracts in Alton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.