Little India Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031020702 · Cook County, IL · pop 8,412 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Eviction risk in the Little India neighborhood of Chicago centers on tract 17031020702, which scores 5.8/10 (Moderate tier) and is home to 8,412 residents. On the national scale it ranks #26,317 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 38% of renter households, a high level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,403 a month against an average household income of $76,812 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. Renters make up 55% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9941, -87.7049 · click any tract to drill in
Why Little India scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Little India compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%Housing & transportation
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
- 95%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.
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)
- 522Total filings over 15 yrs
- 3.34%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.6%Peak (2010)
- 42Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Little India. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 14.9%Housing insecurity
- 7.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.6%Food insecurity
- 15.2%SNAP enrollment
- 9.1%Transit barriers
- 12.5%No health insurance
- 15.0%Frequent mental distress
- 27.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Little India
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Chicago eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Cook County average of 5.7 and above the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is White and Asian and ranks around the 92nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 14.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 17031020702
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