Within parent city
70
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #12,481 of 84,120 nationally
Alton Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 17119401701 · Madison County, IL · pop 2,540 · 50% of tract blocks fall in Alton
17119401701 is a census tract in Alton, IL. It scores 7.1/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,540. Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%
Stable renters 25%
Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units900
Renter share46.8%
SVI overall0.89
Poverty rate38.2%
Median income$46,641
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
94
th percentile
Very High
Within state
83
th percentile
High
National
85
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Alton and the region
Centroid at 38.9075, -90.0996 · click any tract to drill in
Why Alton scores 7.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Alton
4.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.3
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
38.2% poverty · this tract
9.6
Supply constraint
$1,057 rent vs county FMR
3.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Alton
7.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Alton
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Alton
7.8
How Alton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 80%Household composition
- 30%Racial/ethnic minority
- 94%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
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)
- 487Total filings over 11 yrs
- 10.83%Avg annual filing rate
- 17.7%Peak (2007)
- 23Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 69% over the past 11 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 21.4%Housing insecurity
- 15.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.1%Food insecurity
- 33.6%SNAP enrollment
- 14.8%Transit barriers
- 12.6%No health insurance
- 23.5%Frequent mental distress
- 41.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Alton
The dominant input is economic stress at 9.6/10. The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Against the Madison County average of 4.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points. SNAP participation runs 33.6% against 15.2% nationally.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 487 filings here across 11 tracked years.
Housing insecurity runs 21.4% against 14.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2007, when 17.7% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 10.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 85% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9/10. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 17119401701
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17119401701?
Census tract 17119401701 in Alton scores 7.1/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 17119401701?
Median gross rent is $1,057/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17119401701?
38.2% of residents in tract 17119401701 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,540.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17119401701?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 89th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 80th, minority 30th, housing 94th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17119401701?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 487 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 17119401701 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.83% of renter households, peaking at 17.7% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 17119401701 struggle to pay rent?
About 21.4% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 15.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 17119401701 compare to Alton overall?
Tract 17119401701 scores 7.1/10, higher than the parent city of Alton at 5.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Alton; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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