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Census Tract · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally

Joliet Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 17197882702 · Will County, IL · pop 2,746

Tract 17197882702 sits in Joliet eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.5/10. It is home to 2,746 residents. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.

Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29% Stable renters 31% Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units1,092
Renter share60.2%
SVI overall0.52
Poverty rate4.1%
Median income$65,083

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#26 of 46 tracts In Joliet
Moderate
Within county
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#61 of 172 tracts In Will County
Elevated
Within state
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#1,840 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Moderate
National
51 th percentile
Rank, 51st percentileLowHigh
#41,206 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Joliet and the region

Centroid at 41.5271, -88.0962 · click any tract to drill in

Why Joliet scores 4.5

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
4.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,154 rent vs county FMR
1.6
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: 4.54.5This tracttract 882702Joliet: 3.83.8Jolietparent cityCounty: 4.24.2Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 52

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. 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

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.6/10. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

about half of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Will County average of 40.4%. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. At $1,154 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Joliet commands.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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. That is riskier than roughly 51% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 5.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the Will County average of 4.2 closely. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $65,083.

60% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 17197882702

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17197882702?

Census tract 17197882702 in Joliet scores 4.5/10 (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 17197882702?

Median gross rent is $1,154/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17197882702?

4.1% of residents in tract 17197882702 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,746.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17197882702?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 52th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 61th, household 28th, minority 74th, housing 42th.
Q5

What share of households in tract 17197882702 struggle to pay rent?

About 16.4% 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. 9.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 17197882702 compare to Joliet overall?

Tract 17197882702 scores 4.5/10, 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 17197882702 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% 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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