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

Joliet Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 17197882500 · Will County, IL · pop 1,585 · 96% of tract blocks fall in Joliet

Census tract 17197882500 covers part of Joliet, IL, and scores 5.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,585 residents. Cost burden runs 56% here against 40.4% across Will County.

Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 36% Stable renters 28% Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units627
Renter share64.3%
SVI overall0.83
Poverty rate21.0%
Median income$42,356

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#9 of 46 tracts In Joliet
High
Within county
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#38 of 172 tracts In Will County
High
Within state
54 th percentile
Rank, 54th percentileLowHigh
#1,499 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Moderate
National
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#29,336 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Joliet and the region

Centroid at 41.5161, -88.0807 · 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
21.0% poverty · this tract
5.3
Supply constraint
$1,265 rent vs county FMR
2.2
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.
Joliet risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.25.2This tracttract 882500Joliet: 3.83.8Jolietparent cityCounty: 4.24.2Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 83

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.

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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Joliet

The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Set annual rent against average income of $42,356 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 2/10.

Housing insecurity runs 29.1% against 14.2% nationally. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.2/10.

The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against the Will County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.

Adults with no health insurance runs 19.1% against 11.3% nationally. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 3/10. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 17197882500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17197882500?

Census tract 17197882500 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.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 17197882500?

Median gross rent is $1,265/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17197882500?

21.0% of residents in tract 17197882500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,585.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17197882500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 83th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 94th, minority 97th, housing 8th.
Q5

What share of households in tract 17197882500 struggle to pay rent?

About 29.1% 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. 19.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 17197882500 compare to Joliet overall?

Tract 17197882500 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.
Q7

Was tract 17197882500 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. 52% 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.

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