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Neighborhood · Ranked #10,320 of 84,120 nationally

Ridgeville Eviction Risk: Elevated , Evanston

Tract 17031020100 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,927 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

Census tract 17031020100 covers part of the Ridgeville area of Chicago, IL, and scores 7.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,927. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.

Risk score
7.5
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30% Stable renters 34% Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units1,644
Renter share64.4%
SVI overall0.82
Poverty rate17.3%
Median income$69,850

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 6 tracts In Ridgeville
Very High
Within parent city
54 th percentile
Rank, 54th percentileLowHigh
#367 of 792 tracts In Evanston
Moderate
Within county
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#400 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Elevated
Within state
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#435 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Evanston and the region

Centroid at 42.0157, -87.6871 · click any tract to drill in

Why Ridgeville scores 7.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Evanston
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
17.3% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$1,439 rent vs county FMR
3.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Evanston
5.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Evanston
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Evanston
6.5

How Ridgeville compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Ridgeville risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.57.5This tracttract 020100Evanston: 6.66.6Evanstonparent 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: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. 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)

  • 543Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 4.78%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.9%Peak (2010)
  • 29Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170310201002001: 31 filings (3.51/100 renter HHs)2002: 38 filings (4.30/100 renter HHs)2003: 47 filings (5.32/100 renter HHs)2004: 31 filings (3.51/100 renter HHs)2005: 29 filings (3.94/100 renter HHs)2006: 30 filings (4.07/100 renter HHs)2007: 29 filings (3.94/100 renter HHs)2008: 38 filings (5.16/100 renter HHs)2009: 36 filings (4.89/100 renter HHs)2010: 48 filings (5.94/100 renter HHs)2011: 42 filings (6.13/100 renter HHs)2012: 45 filings (6.57/100 renter HHs)2013: 40 filings (5.84/100 renter HHs)2014: 30 filings (4.38/100 renter HHs)2015: 29 filings (4.23/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Ridgeville. 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 Ridgeville

23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

It sits 1.4 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 543 evictions over 15 years of observation.

Food insecurity runs 25.0% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2010, when 5.9% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Chicago. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 4.8% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 17031020100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031020100?

Census tract 17031020100 in the Ridgeville neighborhood scores 7.5/10 (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 17031020100?

Median gross rent is $1,439/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031020100?

17.3% of residents in tract 17031020100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,927.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031020100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 82th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 91th, household 20th, minority 82th, housing 85th.
Q5

Is tract 17031020100 considered part of Ridgeville?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031020100 fall within Ridgeville (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031020100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 543 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031020100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.78% of renter households, peaking at 5.9% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031020100 struggle to pay rent?

About 20.0% 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. 11.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031020100 compare to Evanston overall?

Tract 17031020100 scores 7.5/10, higher than the parent city of Evanston at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Evanston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 17031020100 historically redlined?

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

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

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