Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #12,919 of 84,120 nationally
Peterson Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031130300 · Cook County, IL · pop 5,040 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 7/10, tract 17031130300 in the Peterson Park area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,040. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Risk score
7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%
Stable renters 38%
Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units1,844
Renter share60.2%
SVI overall0.71
Poverty rate11.9%
Median income$69,857
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
44
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
62
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
82
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9866, -87.7134 · click any tract to drill in
Why Peterson Park scores 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
11.9% poverty · this tract
3.0
Supply constraint
$1,349 rent vs county FMR
2.7
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 Peterson Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 71
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 74%Socioeconomic
- 53%Household composition
- 77%Racial/ethnic minority
- 56%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 88%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 292Total filings over 15 yrs
- 2.18%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.3%Peak (2010)
- 25Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 56% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Peterson 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.
- 12.5%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.2%Food insecurity
- 11.6%SNAP enrollment
- 7.5%Transit barriers
- 10.1%No health insurance
- 13.6%Frequent mental distress
- 23.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Peterson Park
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. 37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Cook County average of 45.6%.
The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points.
The filing record is not thin: 292 evictions over 15 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2010 at 3.3% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 2.2% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #12,919 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.3/10.
Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031130300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031130300?
Census tract 17031130300 in the Peterson Park neighborhood scores 7/10 (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 17031130300?
Median gross rent is $1,349/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031130300?
11.9% of residents in tract 17031130300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,040.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031130300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 71th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 53th, minority 77th, housing 56th.
Q5
Is tract 17031130300 considered part of Peterson Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031130300 fall within Peterson Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031130300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 292 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031130300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.18% of renter households, peaking at 3.3% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031130300 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.5% 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. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031130300 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031130300 scores 7/10, higher 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 17031130300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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