Within neighborhood
33
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #15,451 of 84,120 nationally
Buena Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031060800 · Cook County, IL · pop 5,319 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 17031060800 covers part of the Buena Park area of Chicago, IL, and scores 6.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,319. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 32% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
6.5
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18%
Stable renters 39%
Owners 43%
Tract context
Occupied units3,686
Renter share56.6%
SVI overall0.29
Poverty rate10.4%
Median income$83,534
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
36
th percentile
Low
Within county
55
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
78
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9540, -87.6426 · click any tract to drill in
Why Buena Park scores 6.5
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
10.4% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,787 rent vs county FMR
5.1
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 Buena Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 29
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 21%Socioeconomic
- 13%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 61%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.
- 18%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 50%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)
- 704Total filings over 15 yrs
- 2.83%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.2%Peak (2001)
- 24Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 66% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Buena Park. 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.
- 8.6%Housing insecurity
- 4.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.0%Food insecurity
- 6.5%SNAP enrollment
- 5.4%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 14.0%Frequent mental distress
- 18.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Buena Park
What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. At $1,787 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of Chicago commands.
The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. Food insecurity runs 9.0% against 17.8% nationally.
SNAP participation runs 6.5% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 704 eviction filings across 15 observed years. Filings peaked in 2001 at 3.2% of renter households.
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 2.8% 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 3.6/10, 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.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031060800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031060800?
Census tract 17031060800 in the Buena 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 17031060800?
Median gross rent is $1,787/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031060800?
10.4% of residents in tract 17031060800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,319.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031060800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 29th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 21th, household 13th, minority 53th, housing 61th.
Q5
Is tract 17031060800 considered part of Buena Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031060800 fall within Buena Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031060800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 704 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031060800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.83% of renter households, peaking at 3.2% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031060800 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.6% 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. 4.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031060800 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031060800 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 17031060800 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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