Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally
Lakewood Balmoral Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031030800 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,236 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
With a score of 6/10, tract 17031030800 in the Lakewood Balmoral Historic District area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,236 residents. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 34%
Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units2,190
Renter share58.3%
SVI overall0.22
Poverty rate8.7%
Median income$96,719
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
26
th percentile
Low
Within county
47
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
74
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9799, -87.6642 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lakewood Balmoral Historic District scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
8.7% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$1,508 rent vs county FMR
3.6
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 Lakewood Balmoral Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 22
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 26%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 46%Racial/ethnic minority
- 64%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 100%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)
- 120Total filings over 15 yrs
- 0.67%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.1%Peak (2003)
- 3Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 77% over the past 15 months.
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.
- 8.0%Housing insecurity
- 4.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.4%Food insecurity
- 6.3%SNAP enrollment
- 4.8%Transit barriers
- 5.8%No health insurance
- 12.9%Frequent mental distress
- 18.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Lakewood Balmoral Historic District
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. 16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.2/10. Food insecurity runs 8.4% against 17.8% nationally.
SNAP participation runs 6.3% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 120 filings here across 15 tracked years.
Against Cook County at 45.6%, 41% of renters here are cost-burdened. The worst year on record was 2003, when 1.1% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 0.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031030800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031030800?
Census tract 17031030800 in the Lakewood Balmoral Historic District neighborhood scores 6/10 (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 17031030800?
Median gross rent is $1,508/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031030800?
8.7% of residents in tract 17031030800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,236.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031030800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 22th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 26th, household 3th, minority 46th, housing 64th.
Q5
Is tract 17031030800 considered part of Lakewood Balmoral Historic District?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031030800 fall within Lakewood Balmoral Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031030800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 120 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031030800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.67% of renter households, peaking at 1.1% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031030800 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.0% 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. 4.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031030800 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031030800 scores 6/10, lower 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 17031030800 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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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