Within neighborhood
43
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #46,312 of 84,120 nationally
Old Town Triangle Eviction Risk: Lower , Chicago
Tract 17031071600 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,903 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 17031071600, home to 1,903 residents in Old Town Triangle in Chicago, scores 5.9/10 for landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 72% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 42% of renter households, a severe level, and 23% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $2,233 a month while the average household earns $242,250 a year, roughly 11% of income at the averages. Renters make up 38% of occupied homes.
Risk score
3.7
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 62%
Tract context
Occupied units733
Renter share37.7%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate5.4%
Median income$242,250
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
6
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
31
th percentile
Low
Within state
49
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9165, -87.6412 · click any tract to drill in
Why Old Town Triangle scores 3.7
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
5.4% poverty · this tract
1.4
Supply constraint
$2,233 rent vs county FMR
7.7
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 Old Town Triangle compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 4%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 32%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%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
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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)
- 50Total filings over 14 yrs
- 1.08%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.6%Peak (2012)
- 1Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 67% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Old Town Triangle. 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.
- 6.5%Housing insecurity
- 3.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.6%Food insecurity
- 4.8%SNAP enrollment
- 4.1%Transit barriers
- 4.6%No health insurance
- 12.4%Frequent mental distress
- 16.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Old Town Triangle
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Chicago eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Cook County average of 5.7 and above the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 6.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 3.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 100% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031071600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031071600?
Census tract 17031071600 in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood scores 3.7/10 (Lower 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 17031071600?
Median gross rent is $2,233/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 42% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031071600?
5.4% of residents in tract 17031071600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,903.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031071600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 4th, household 2th, minority 32th, housing 23th.
Q5
Is tract 17031071600 considered part of Old Town Triangle?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031071600 fall within Old Town Triangle (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031071600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 50 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 17031071600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.08% of renter households, peaking at 2.6% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031071600 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. 3.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031071600 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031071600 scores 3.7/10, lower than the parent city of Chicago at 5.7/10. 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 17031071600 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. 100% 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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