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Neighborhood · Ranked #17,650 of 84,120 nationally

Northalsted Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Tract 17031060900 · Cook County, IL · pop 6,943 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

With a score of 6.1/10, tract 17031060900 in the Northalsted area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 6,943. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10.

Risk score
6.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 29% Owners 50%
Tract context
Occupied units4,886
Renter share50.1%
SVI overall0.35
Poverty rate7.8%
Median income$86,987

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 4 tracts In Northalsted
Elevated
Within parent city
28 th percentile
Rank, 28th percentileLowHigh
#568 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Low
Within county
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#693 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Moderate
Within state
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#829 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.9515, -87.6418 · click any tract to drill in

Why Northalsted scores 6.1

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
7.8% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,487 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 Northalsted compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Northalsted risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 6.16.1This tracttract 060900Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 35

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)

  • 814Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 1.94%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.0%Peak (2008)
  • 27Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170310609002001: 54 filings (1.75/100 renter HHs)2002: 47 filings (1.52/100 renter HHs)2003: 65 filings (2.10/100 renter HHs)2004: 59 filings (1.91/100 renter HHs)2005: 51 filings (2.02/100 renter HHs)2006: 63 filings (2.50/100 renter HHs)2007: 49 filings (1.94/100 renter HHs)2008: 76 filings (3.01/100 renter HHs)2009: 71 filings (2.82/100 renter HHs)2010: 60 filings (2.14/100 renter HHs)2011: 63 filings (2.12/100 renter HHs)2012: 50 filings (1.68/100 renter HHs)2013: 36 filings (1.21/100 renter HHs)2014: 43 filings (1.45/100 renter HHs)2015: 27 filings (0.91/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 50% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Northalsted. 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 Northalsted

Disability prevalence runs 16.9% against 31.5% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2/10.

Food insecurity runs 7.3% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 814 eviction filings across 15 observed years. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 41% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Filings peaked in 2008 at 3.0% 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 1.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 79th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 4.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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 17031060900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031060900?

Census tract 17031060900 in the Northalsted neighborhood scores 6.1/10 (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 17031060900?

Median gross rent is $1,487/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031060900?

7.8% of residents in tract 17031060900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,943.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031060900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 35th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 40th, household 10th, minority 37th, housing 61th.
Q5

Is tract 17031060900 considered part of Northalsted?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031060900 fall within Northalsted (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031060900?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 814 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031060900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.94% of renter households, peaking at 3.0% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031060900 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.4% 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 17031060900 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031060900 scores 6.1/10, 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 17031060900 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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