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Jarvis Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Tract 17031010100 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,284 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

17031010100 is a census tract in the Jarvis Square area of Chicago, IL. It scores 7.2/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37% Stable renters 32% Owners 31%
Tract context
Occupied units2,190
Renter share68.5%
SVI overall0.82
Poverty rate14.0%
Median income$69,460

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 5 tracts In Jarvis Square
Moderate
Within parent city
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#411 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Moderate
Within county
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#453 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Elevated
Within state
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#517 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 42.0213, -87.6698 · click any tract to drill in

Why Jarvis Square scores 7.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Chicago
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
14.0% poverty · this tract
3.5
Supply constraint
$1,252 rent vs county FMR
2.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Chicago
5.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Chicago
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Chicago
6.5

How Jarvis Square compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Jarvis Square risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.27.2This tracttract 010100Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 82

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.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 1,879Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 7.01%Avg annual filing rate
  • 10.2%Peak (2001)
  • 121Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170310101002001: 188 filings (10.20/100 renter HHs)2002: 182 filings (9.88/100 renter HHs)2003: 119 filings (6.46/100 renter HHs)2004: 119 filings (6.46/100 renter HHs)2005: 87 filings (5.27/100 renter HHs)2006: 90 filings (5.45/100 renter HHs)2007: 113 filings (6.84/100 renter HHs)2008: 91 filings (5.51/100 renter HHs)2009: 80 filings (4.84/100 renter HHs)2010: 122 filings (6.81/100 renter HHs)2011: 139 filings (7.55/100 renter HHs)2012: 152 filings (8.26/100 renter HHs)2013: 133 filings (7.22/100 renter HHs)2014: 143 filings (7.77/100 renter HHs)2015: 121 filings (6.57/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 36% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Jarvis Square. 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 Jarvis Square

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Cost burden runs 54% here against 45.6% across Cook County.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.1/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Court records carry 1,879 eviction filings across 15 observed years.

SNAP participation runs 23.6% against 15.2% nationally. At $1,252 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Chicago commands.

The worst year on record was 2001, when 10.2% of renter households were served. 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.

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 17031010100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031010100?

Census tract 17031010100 in the Jarvis Square neighborhood scores 7.2/10 (Elevated 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 17031010100?

Median gross rent is $1,252/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031010100?

14.0% of residents in tract 17031010100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,284.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031010100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 82th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 88th, household 27th, minority 72th, housing 89th.
Q5

Is tract 17031010100 considered part of Jarvis Square?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031010100 fall within Jarvis Square (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031010100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,879 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031010100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.01% of renter households, peaking at 10.2% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031010100 struggle to pay rent?

About 20.5% 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. 13.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031010100 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031010100 scores 7.2/10, higher than the parent city of Chicago at 6.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Chicago eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 17031010100 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

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

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