Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Bricktown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031051000 ·
Cook County, IL · pop 1,707 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
17031051000 is a census tract in the Bricktown area of Chicago, IL. It scores 5.3/10 for landlords. Cost burden runs about one in five here against 45.6% across Cook County.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%Stable renters 25%Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units695
Renter share31.4%
SVI overall0.05
Poverty rate3.1%
Median income$184,464
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100th percentile
#1 of 2 tracts In Bricktown
Very High
Within parent city
13th percentile
#688 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Very Low
Within county
34th percentile
#886 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Low
Within state
59th percentile
#1,346 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9413, -87.6857 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bricktown scores 5.3
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
3.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,764 rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Bricktown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 5
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
1%Socioeconomic
20%Household composition
44%Racial/ethnic minority
12%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
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
7.7%Housing insecurity
4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
7.2%Food insecurity
5.0%SNAP enrollment
4.3%Transit barriers
5.5%No health insurance
13.0%Frequent mental distress
14.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bricktown
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 14.8% against 31.5% nationally.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. At $1,764 a month, rents run 23% over what the rest of Chicago commands.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Food insecurity runs 7.2% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 57 filings here across 15 tracked years.
It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. The worst year on record was 2015, when 2.1% of renter households were served.
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 1.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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 17031051000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031051000?
Census tract 17031051000 in the Bricktown neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (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 17031051000?
Median gross rent is $1,764/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 20% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031051000?
3.1% of residents in tract 17031051000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,707.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031051000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 5th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 1th, household 20th, minority 44th, housing 12th.
Q5
Is tract 17031051000 considered part of Bricktown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031051000 fall within Bricktown (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031051000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 57 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031051000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.04% of renter households, peaking at 2.1% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031051000 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.7% 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. 4.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031051000 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031051000 scores 5.3/10, 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 17031051000 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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