Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Old Town Triangle Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031071700 ·
Cook County, IL · pop 1,485 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 17031071700 covers part of the Old Town Triangle area of Chicago, IL, and scores 5.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,485 residents. Average gross rent is $2,612, 81% above the Chicago average.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%Stable renters 26%Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units663
Renter share40.0%
SVI overall0.25
Poverty rate7.9%
Median income$149,821
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
29th percentile
#6 of 8 tracts In Old Town Triangle
Low
Within parent city
1th percentile
#781 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Very Low
Within county
31th percentile
#914 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Low
Within state
59th percentile
#1,346 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9129, -87.6411 · click any tract to drill in
Why Old Town Triangle scores 5.3
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
7.9% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$2,612 rent vs county FMR
9.8
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 Old Town Triangle compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 25
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
5%Socioeconomic
30%Household composition
43%Racial/ethnic minority
68%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)
63Total filings over 15 yrs
1.50%Avg annual filing rate
3.4%Peak (2005)
3Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year2001 to 2015
Filings climbed 50% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Old Town Triangle. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
6.6%Housing insecurity
3.9%Utility-shutoff threat
6.4%Food insecurity
4.6%SNAP enrollment
4.1%Transit barriers
4.2%No health insurance
12.4%Frequent mental distress
16.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Old Town Triangle
What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 9.8/10. The voucher gap is 48.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Against Cook County at 45.6%, 35% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.3% against 31.5% nationally.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Food insecurity runs 6.4% against 17.8% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 63 evictions over 15 years of observation. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. The worst year on record was 2005, when 3.4% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 1.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.3/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031071700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031071700?
Census tract 17031071700 in the Old Town Triangle 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 17031071700?
Median gross rent is $2,612/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031071700?
7.9% of residents in tract 17031071700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,485.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031071700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 25th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 5th, household 30th, minority 43th, housing 68th.
Q5
Is tract 17031071700 considered part of Old Town Triangle?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031071700 fall within Old Town Triangle (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031071700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 63 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031071700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.50% of renter households, peaking at 3.4% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031071700 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. 3.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031071700 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031071700 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 17031071700 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.
Sibling tracts
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