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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Park West Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Tract 17031070102 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,980 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

Census tract 17031070102 covers part of the Park West area of Chicago, IL, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,980. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.2/10.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23% Stable renters 38% Owners 39%
Tract context
Occupied units1,914
Renter share61.4%
SVI overall0.28
Poverty rate4.9%
Median income$106,062

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
14 th percentile
Rank, 14th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 8 tracts In Park West
Very Low
Within parent city
16 th percentile
Rank, 16th percentileLowHigh
#664 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Very Low
Within county
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#862 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Low
Within state
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#1,219 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.9306, -87.6422 · click any tract to drill in

Why Park West scores 5.4

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
4.9% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$1,525 rent vs county FMR
3.7
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: 5.45.4This tracttract 070102Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 28

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)

  • 260Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 1.83%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.9%Peak (2003)
  • 5Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170310701022001: 15 filings (1.65/100 renter HHs)2002: 21 filings (2.32/100 renter HHs)2003: 26 filings (2.87/100 renter HHs)2004: 14 filings (1.54/100 renter HHs)2005: 20 filings (2.63/100 renter HHs)2006: 19 filings (2.50/100 renter HHs)2007: 10 filings (1.31/100 renter HHs)2008: 22 filings (2.89/100 renter HHs)2009: 25 filings (3.29/100 renter HHs)2010: 12 filings (0.99/100 renter HHs)2011: 14 filings (1.01/100 renter HHs)2012: 19 filings (1.38/100 renter HHs)2013: 26 filings (1.88/100 renter HHs)2014: 12 filings (0.87/100 renter HHs)2015: 5 filings (0.36/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 67% 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

Disability prevalence runs 15.0% against 31.5% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 38% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Cook County average of 45.6%.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. SNAP participation runs 4.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 260 filings here across 15 tracked years. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2003, when 2.9% of renter households were served.

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 1.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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 17031070102

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031070102?

Census tract 17031070102 in the Park West neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (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 17031070102?

Median gross rent is $1,525/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031070102?

4.9% of residents in tract 17031070102 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,980.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031070102?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 28th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 11th, household 2th, minority 40th, housing 98th.
Q5

Is tract 17031070102 considered part of Park West?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031070102 fall within Park West (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031070102?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 260 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031070102 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.83% of renter households, peaking at 2.9% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031070102 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.6% 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. 3.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031070102 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031070102 scores 5.4/10, 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 17031070102 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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