Census Tract · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally

Joliet Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 17197882000 · Will County, IL · pop 2,198

Tract 17197882000 sits in Joliet eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.2/10. It is home to 2,198 residents. Set annual rent against average income of $22,750 and the ratio lands at 58%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Risk score

5.2

Moderate

Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 52% Stable renters 37% Owners 11%

Tract context

Occupied units840

Renter share89.0%

SVI overall0.95

Poverty rate44.1%

Median income$22,750

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Joliet and the region

Centroid at 41.5255, -88.0796 · click any tract to drill in

Why Joliet scores 5.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Joliet

4.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

5.4

State political climate

Illinois legislature & governorship

5.2

Economic stress

44.1% poverty · this tract

10.0

Supply constraint

$1,095 rent vs county FMR

1.2

Rent control risk

Inherited from Joliet

2.0

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

3.5

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Joliet

3.0

Housing court bias

Inherited from Joliet

3.5

How Joliet compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

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

99%Socioeconomic
86%Household composition
88%Racial/ethnic minority
70%Housing & transportation

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.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
18%Grade C
23%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.

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.

36.0%Housing insecurity
26.7%Utility-shutoff threat
48.5%Food insecurity
52.8%SNAP enrollment
24.2%Transit barriers
25.6%No health insurance
22.0%Frequent mental distress
43.8%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Joliet

Cost burden runs 58% here against 40.4% across Will County. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 52.8% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 44%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

This is renter territory: 89% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.2/10.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Disability prevalence runs 43.8% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 1.0 points above the Will County average of 4.2.

Average gross rent is $1,095, 14% below the Joliet average. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Joliet. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 17197882000

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17197882000?

Census tract 17197882000 in Joliet scores 5.2/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 17197882000?

Median gross rent is $1,095/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 17197882000?

44.1% of residents in tract 17197882000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,198.

How socially vulnerable is tract 17197882000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 86th, minority 88th, housing 70th.

What share of households in tract 17197882000 struggle to pay rent?

About 36.0% 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. 26.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 17197882000 compare to Joliet overall?

Tract 17197882000 scores 5.2/10, higher than the parent city of Joliet at 3.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Joliet eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 17197882000 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. 23% 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 Joliet

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