Forest Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Joliet
Tract 17197881302 · Will County, IL · pop 1,003 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
17197881302 is a census tract in the Forest Park area of Joliet, IL. It scores 5.2/10 for landlords. Population here is 1,003. SNAP participation runs 36.4% against 15.2% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Joliet and the region
Centroid at 41.5394, -88.0759 · click any tract to drill in
Why Forest Park scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Forest Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 65
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 56%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 4%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
- 11%Grade C
- 9%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.
- 31.9%Housing insecurity
- 18.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.4%Food insecurity
- 36.4%SNAP enrollment
- 18.5%Transit barriers
- 31.1%No health insurance
- 19.3%Frequent mental distress
- 38.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Forest Park
Cost burden runs 27% here against 40.4% across Will County. Adults with no health insurance runs 31.1% against 11.3% nationally.
The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.4/10. The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.
It sits 1.0 points above the Will County average of 4.2. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 7.1/10.
At $1,125 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Joliet commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.8/10.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $50,156.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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