Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Wrightwood Neighbors Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031070500 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,185 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 17031070500 sits in the Wrightwood Neighbors area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.3/10. Population here is 3,185. 34% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 57%
Tract context
Occupied units1,318
Renter share43.2%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate1.4%
Median income$194,408
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
2
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
32
th percentile
Low
Within state
59
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9289, -87.6609 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wrightwood Neighbors scores 5.3
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
1.4% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,944 rent vs county FMR
6.0
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 Wrightwood Neighbors compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 15
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 3%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 24%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 23%Grade C
- 77%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)
- 92Total filings over 15 yrs
- 1.04%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.6%Peak (2001)
- 3Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 73% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Wrightwood Neighbors. 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.
- 6.4%Housing insecurity
- 3.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.4%Food insecurity
- 4.5%SNAP enrollment
- 4.2%Transit barriers
- 4.9%No health insurance
- 13.2%Frequent mental distress
- 16.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Wrightwood Neighbors
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. At $1,944 a month, rents run 35% over what the rest of Chicago commands.
On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.6% against 31.5% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 92 filings here across 15 tracked years. Housing insecurity runs 6.4% against 14.2% nationally.
Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Filings peaked in 2001 at 1.6% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.4/10.
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 17031070500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031070500?
Census tract 17031070500 in the Wrightwood Neighbors 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 17031070500?
Median gross rent is $1,944/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031070500?
1.4% of residents in tract 17031070500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,185.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031070500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 3th, household 3th, minority 24th, housing 88th.
Q5
Is tract 17031070500 considered part of Wrightwood Neighbors?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031070500 fall within Wrightwood Neighbors (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031070500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 92 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031070500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.04% of renter households, peaking at 1.6% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031070500 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.4% 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. 3.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031070500 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031070500 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 17031070500 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 77% 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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