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Census Tract · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally

Joliet Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 17197882801 · Will County, IL · pop 2,621

Tract 17197882801 sits in Joliet eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. It is home to 2,621 residents. 86% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Will County average of 40.4%.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 70% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15% Stable renters 2% Owners 83%
Tract context
Occupied units997
Renter share17.2%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate14.2%
Median income$80,172

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#16 of 46 tracts In Joliet
Elevated
Within county
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#45 of 172 tracts In Will County
Elevated
Within state
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#1,560 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Moderate
National
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#31,049 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Joliet and the region

Centroid at 41.5207, -88.1198 · click any tract to drill in

Why Joliet scores 5.1

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
14.2% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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: 5.15.1This tracttract 882801Joliet: 3.83.8Jolietparent cityCounty: 4.24.2Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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

25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 2/10. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 3/10.

Against the Will County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. 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 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 17% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Statute speed, court posture and rent-regulation exposure are inherited from Joliet eviction risk rather than measured on these blocks; the economic and supply components are the tract-level part of the score.

Social vulnerability reads 9.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 17197882801

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17197882801?

Census tract 17197882801 in Joliet scores 5.1/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 17197882801?

14.2% of residents in tract 17197882801 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,621.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 17197882801?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 92th, minority 72th, housing 91th.
Q4

What share of households in tract 17197882801 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.4% 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. 10.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q5

How does tract 17197882801 compare to Joliet overall?

Tract 17197882801 scores 5.1/10, 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.
Q6

Was tract 17197882801 historically redlined?

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