Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #13,349 of 84,120 nationally
Norwood Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031100300 · Cook County, IL · pop 6,447 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Tract 17031100300 sits in the Norwood Park area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.9/10. Population here is 6,447. The severe-burden share is 49%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
6.9
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 66%
Tract context
Occupied units2,694
Renter share34.3%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate11.9%
Median income$74,250
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
43
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
61
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
81
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9887, -87.8043 · click any tract to drill in
Why Norwood Park scores 6.9
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
11.9% poverty · this tract
3.0
Supply constraint
$2,040 rent vs county FMR
6.6
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 Norwood Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 64
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 39%Socioeconomic
- 74%Household composition
- 33%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 22%Grade B
- 55%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 57Total filings over 14 yrs
- 0.59%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.5%Peak (2008)
- 2Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 50% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Norwood Park. 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.
- 8.7%Housing insecurity
- 5.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.1%Food insecurity
- 9.2%SNAP enrollment
- 5.7%Transit barriers
- 7.9%No health insurance
- 13.0%Frequent mental distress
- 29.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Norwood Park
Against Cook County at 45.6%, 63% of renters here are cost-burdened. Average gross rent is $2,040, 42% above the Chicago average. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $74,250, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10.
The voucher gap is 15.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 57 filings here across 14 tracked years.
Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points. The worst year on record was 2008, when 1.5% 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 0.6% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031100300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031100300?
Census tract 17031100300 in the Norwood Park neighborhood scores 6.9/10 (Elevated 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 17031100300?
Median gross rent is $2,040/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031100300?
11.9% of residents in tract 17031100300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,447.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031100300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 39th, household 74th, minority 33th, housing 86th.
Q5
Is tract 17031100300 considered part of Norwood Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031100300 fall within Norwood Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031100300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 57 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 17031100300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.59% of renter households, peaking at 1.5% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031100300 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.7% 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. 5.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031100300 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031100300 scores 6.9/10, right in line with 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 17031100300 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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