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Park West Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Tract 17031063302 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,102 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 17031063302 covers part of the Park West area of Chicago, IL, and scores 5.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs 33% here against 45.6% across Cook County.

Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23% Stable renters 46% Owners 31%
Tract context
Occupied units2,856
Renter share68.4%
SVI overall0.19
Poverty rate6.1%
Median income$96,364

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
43 th percentile
Rank, 43rd percentileLowHigh
#5 of 8 tracts In Park West
Moderate
Within parent city
21 th percentile
Rank, 21st percentileLowHigh
#628 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Low
Within county
41 th percentile
Rank, 41st percentileLowHigh
#793 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Moderate
Within state
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#1,067 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.9348, -87.6399 · click any tract to drill in

Why Park West scores 5.7

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
6.1% poverty · this tract
1.5
Supply constraint
$1,727 rent vs county FMR
4.8
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 Park West compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Park West risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.75.7This tracttract 063302Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 19

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. 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)

  • 426Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 1.71%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.2%Peak (2004)
  • 20Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170310633022001: 25 filings (1.49/100 renter HHs)2002: 36 filings (2.14/100 renter HHs)2003: 47 filings (2.79/100 renter HHs)2004: 54 filings (3.21/100 renter HHs)2005: 31 filings (2.12/100 renter HHs)2006: 36 filings (2.46/100 renter HHs)2007: 9 filings (0.62/100 renter HHs)2008: 23 filings (1.57/100 renter HHs)2009: 25 filings (1.71/100 renter HHs)2010: 36 filings (1.94/100 renter HHs)2011: 24 filings (1.30/100 renter HHs)2012: 20 filings (1.08/100 renter HHs)2013: 26 filings (1.41/100 renter HHs)2014: 14 filings (0.76/100 renter HHs)2015: 20 filings (1.08/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 20% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Park West. 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 Park West

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 14.7% against 31.5% nationally.

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.5/10. 68% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Food insecurity runs 6.2% against 17.8% nationally. At $1,727 a month, rents run 20% over what the rest of Chicago commands.

The filing record is not thin: 426 evictions over 15 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2004, when 3.2% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 1.7% of renter households face a filing.

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 17031063302

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031063302?

Census tract 17031063302 in the Park West neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (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 17031063302?

Median gross rent is $1,727/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031063302?

6.1% of residents in tract 17031063302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,102.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031063302?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 19th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 21th, household 3th, minority 29th, housing 70th.
Q5

Is tract 17031063302 considered part of Park West?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031063302 fall within Park West (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031063302?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 426 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031063302 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.71% of renter households, peaking at 3.2% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031063302 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.5% 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. 3.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031063302 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031063302 scores 5.7/10, 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 17031063302 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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.
Sibling tracts

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