Forest Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Joliet
Tract 17197881301 · Will County, IL · pop 3,389 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Tract 17197881301, home to 3,389 residents in the Forest Park area of Joliet, scores 5.2/10 for landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 46% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 57% of renter households, a severe level, and 23% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,310 a month against an average household income of $51,964 a year, roughly 30% of income at the averages. About 30% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Joliet and the region
Centroid at 41.5414, -88.0669 · click any tract to drill in
Why Forest Park scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Forest Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 71%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 25%Grade C
- 49%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
Within Forest Park. 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.
- 32.0%Housing insecurity
- 17.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 42.0%Food insecurity
- 36.6%SNAP enrollment
- 18.7%Transit barriers
- 34.6%No health insurance
- 18.9%Frequent mental distress
- 40.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Forest Park
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 6.1/10. 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 Joliet 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 Will County average of 4.9 and in line with the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 87th 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 32.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 17.9% 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 17197881301
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Highest-risk tracts in Joliet
Top eight tracts in Joliet ranked by composite eviction-risk score.