Neighborhood · Ranked #12,919 of 84,120 nationally
Little India Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031020702 ·
Cook County, IL · pop 8,412 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 17031020702 covers part of the Little India area of Chicago, IL, and scores 7/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 8,412. 24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21%Stable renters 34%Owners 45%
Tract context
Occupied units2,487
Renter share55.2%
SVI overall0.92
Poverty rate14.0%
Median income$76,812
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
33th percentile
#5 of 7 tracts In Little India
Low
Within parent city
44th percentile
#446 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Moderate
Within county
63th percentile
#500 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Elevated
Within state
82th percentile
#578 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9941, -87.7049 · click any tract to drill in
Why Little India scores 7
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
$1,403 rent vs county FMR
3.0
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 Little India compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
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
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
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.
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)
522Total filings over 15 yrs
3.34%Avg annual filing rate
3.6%Peak (2010)
42Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year2001 to 2015
Filings climbed 83% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Little India. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Little India
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
Cost burden runs 38% here against 45.6% across Cook County. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.5/10.
It sits 0.9 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 522 filings here across 15 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2010, when 3.6% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. In a typical year about 3.3% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 85% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter.
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 17031020702
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031020702?
Census tract 17031020702 in the Little India neighborhood scores 7/10 (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 17031020702?
Median gross rent is $1,403/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031020702?
14.0% of residents in tract 17031020702 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 8,412.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031020702?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 92th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 94th, minority 72th, housing 88th.
Q5
Is tract 17031020702 considered part of Little India?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031020702 fall within Little India (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031020702?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 522 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031020702 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.34% of renter households, peaking at 3.6% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031020702 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.9% 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. 7.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031020702 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031020702 scores 7/10, 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 17031020702 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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