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Sheridan Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Tract 17031031700 · Cook County, IL · pop 6,119 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

With a score of 6.5/10, tract 17031031700 in the Sheridan Park area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10.

Risk score
6.5
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23% Stable renters 37% Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units3,187
Renter share60.7%
SVI overall0.40
Poverty rate10.2%
Median income$82,774

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Sheridan Park
Moderate
Within parent city
36 th percentile
Rank, 36th percentileLowHigh
#506 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Low
Within county
55 th percentile
Rank, 55th percentileLowHigh
#601 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Moderate
Within state
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#716 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.9654, -87.6632 · click any tract to drill in

Why Sheridan Park scores 6.5

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
10.2% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$1,249 rent vs county FMR
2.1
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 Sheridan Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Sheridan Park risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 6.56.5This tracttract 031700Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 40

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 1,324Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 3.38%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.1%Peak (2001)
  • 59Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170310317002001: 148 filings (5.10/100 renter HHs)2002: 133 filings (4.58/100 renter HHs)2003: 130 filings (4.48/100 renter HHs)2004: 112 filings (3.86/100 renter HHs)2005: 100 filings (4.03/100 renter HHs)2006: 89 filings (3.59/100 renter HHs)2007: 80 filings (3.22/100 renter HHs)2008: 71 filings (2.86/100 renter HHs)2009: 84 filings (3.39/100 renter HHs)2010: 56 filings (2.37/100 renter HHs)2011: 83 filings (3.40/100 renter HHs)2012: 83 filings (3.40/100 renter HHs)2013: 43 filings (1.76/100 renter HHs)2014: 53 filings (2.17/100 renter HHs)2015: 59 filings (2.42/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 60% 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Sheridan Park

The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.1% against 31.5% nationally. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.1/10.

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,324 filings here across 15 tracked years. Average gross rent is $1,249, 13% below the Chicago average.

Filings peaked in 2001 at 5.1% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 3.4% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031031700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031031700?

Census tract 17031031700 in the Sheridan Park neighborhood scores 6.5/10 (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 17031031700?

Median gross rent is $1,249/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031031700?

10.2% of residents in tract 17031031700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,119.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031031700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 40th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 44th, household 3th, minority 50th, housing 85th.
Q5

Is tract 17031031700 considered part of Sheridan Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031031700 fall within Sheridan Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031031700?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,324 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031031700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.38% of renter households, peaking at 5.1% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031031700 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.7% 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. 6.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031031700 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031031700 scores 6.5/10, right in line with 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 17031031700 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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