Within neighborhood
20
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Ridgeville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Evanston
Tract 17031020200 · Cook County, IL · pop 7,203 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 17031020200 covers part of the Ridgeville area of Chicago, IL, and scores 5.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 7,203 residents. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.4/10.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 77%
Tract context
Occupied units1,999
Renter share23.5%
SVI overall0.59
Poverty rate5.4%
Median income$115,559
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
14
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
34
th percentile
Low
Within state
59
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Evanston and the region
Centroid at 42.0157, -87.6995 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ridgeville scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
5.4% poverty · this tract
1.4
Supply constraint
$1,432 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 59
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 64%Household composition
- 69%Racial/ethnic minority
- 51%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 88%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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)
- 180Total filings over 15 yrs
- 2.79%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.4%Peak (2014)
- 18Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 157% 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.
- 10.6%Housing insecurity
- 5.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.7%Food insecurity
- 9.0%SNAP enrollment
- 6.2%Transit barriers
- 8.3%No health insurance
- 13.3%Frequent mental distress
- 22.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Ridgeville
On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
Against Cook County at 45.6%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 180 filings here across 15 tracked years.
Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Filings peaked in 2014 at 4.4% of renter households. 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 2.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 23% 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.
Social vulnerability reads 6.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $115,559, annual rent is just 15%.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031020200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031020200?
Census tract 17031020200 in the Ridgeville neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (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 17031020200?
Median gross rent is $1,432/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031020200?
5.4% of residents in tract 17031020200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,203.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031020200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 59th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 51th, household 64th, minority 69th, housing 51th.
Q5
Is tract 17031020200 considered part of Ridgeville?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031020200 fall within Ridgeville (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031020200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 180 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031020200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.79% of renter households, peaking at 4.4% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031020200 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.6% 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. 5.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031020200 compare to Evanston overall?
Tract 17031020200 scores 5.3/10, lower 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 17031020200 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.
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