Skip to content
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Southtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Peoria

Tract 17143000900 · Peoria County, IL · pop 2,452 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

With a score of 5.4/10, tract 17143000900 in the Southtown area of Peoria, IL reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,452. Set annual rent against average income of $16,191 and the ratio lands at 59%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 46% Stable renters 52% Owners 2%
Tract context
Occupied units1,324
Renter share97.3%
SVI overall0.98
Poverty rate50.6%
Median income$16,191

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Southtown
Moderate
Within parent city
72 th percentile
Rank, 72nd percentileLowHigh
#10 of 33 tracts In Peoria
Elevated
Within county
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#13 of 49 tracts In Peoria County
High
Within state
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#1,219 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Peoria and the region

Centroid at 40.6888, -89.6018 · click any tract to drill in

Why Southtown scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Peoria
4.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.3
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
50.6% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$795 rent vs county FMR
2.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Peoria
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Peoria
3.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Peoria
3.5

How Southtown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Southtown risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 0009004.0Peoriaparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county5.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 98

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Southtown

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Food insecurity runs 54.8% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 51%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Housing insecurity runs 37.5% against 14.2% nationally. 97% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. At $795 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Peoria commands.

Against the Peoria County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.9/10. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Peoria. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. 47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 17143000900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17143000900?

Census tract 17143000900 in the Southtown neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate 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 17143000900?

Median gross rent is $795/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17143000900?

50.6% of residents in tract 17143000900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,452.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17143000900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 98th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 98th, minority 80th, housing 90th.
Q5

Is tract 17143000900 considered part of Southtown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17143000900 fall within Southtown (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 17143000900 struggle to pay rent?

About 37.5% 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. 32.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 17143000900 compare to Peoria overall?

Tract 17143000900 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Peoria at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Peoria eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 17143000900 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 50% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Peoria

Top eight tracts in Peoria ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Related