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Little India Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Tract 17031020802 · Cook County, IL · pop 8,715 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

How risky is Little India in Chicago for landlords? Census tract 17031020802 scores 5.8/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 69% of US census tracts.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 38% of renter households, a high level, and 17% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,471 monthly, set against $70,044 in average yearly household income, roughly 25% of income at the averages. Renters make up 67% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 26% Stable renters 42% Owners 32%
Tract context
Occupied units2,125
Renter share67.2%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate14.2%
Median income$70,044

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 7 tracts In Little India
Elevated
Within parent city
49 th percentile
Rank, 49th percentileLowHigh
#408 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Moderate
Within county
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#452 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Elevated
Within state
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#660 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.9941, -87.6946 · click any tract to drill in

Why Little India scores 5.4

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
14.2% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$1,471 rent vs county FMR
3.4
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.
Little India risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.45.4This tracttract 020802Chicago: 5.75.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 4.54.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.83.8Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 90

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)

  • 598Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 2.97%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.3%Peak (2004)
  • 34Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170310208022001: 30 filings (2.20/100 renter HHs)2002: 40 filings (2.93/100 renter HHs)2003: 44 filings (3.22/100 renter HHs)2004: 58 filings (4.25/100 renter HHs)2005: 35 filings (2.66/100 renter HHs)2006: 39 filings (2.97/100 renter HHs)2007: 40 filings (3.04/100 renter HHs)2008: 45 filings (3.42/100 renter HHs)2009: 44 filings (3.35/100 renter HHs)2010: 50 filings (3.61/100 renter HHs)2011: 32 filings (2.39/100 renter HHs)2012: 38 filings (2.84/100 renter HHs)2013: 33 filings (2.46/100 renter HHs)2014: 36 filings (2.69/100 renter HHs)2015: 34 filings (2.54/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Little India. 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 Little India

The score leans hardest on 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.

In CDC survey modeling, about 20.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 11.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

The tract is Asian and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 90th 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.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031020802

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031020802?

Census tract 17031020802 in the Little India neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (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 17031020802?

Median gross rent is $1,471/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031020802?

14.2% of residents in tract 17031020802 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 8,715.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031020802?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 73th, minority 82th, housing 67th.
Q5

Is tract 17031020802 considered part of Little India?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031020802 fall within Little India (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031020802?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 598 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031020802 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.97% of renter households, peaking at 4.3% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031020802 struggle to pay rent?

About 20.1% 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. 11.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031020802 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031020802 scores 5.4/10, lower than the parent city of Chicago at 5.7/10. 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 17031020802 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 Chicago

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

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