Neighborhood · Ranked #12,481 of 84,120 nationally
Mayfair Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031160300 ·
Cook County, IL · pop 3,685 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 17031160300 covers part of the Mayfair area of Chicago, IL, and scores 7.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,685 residents. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Risk score
7.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%Stable renters 36%Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units1,792
Renter share58.1%
SVI overall0.69
Poverty rate14.6%
Median income$76,083
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67th percentile
#3 of 7 tracts In Mayfair
Elevated
Within parent city
46th percentile
#431 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Moderate
Within county
64th percentile
#475 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Elevated
Within state
83th percentile
#543 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9573, -87.7309 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mayfair scores 7.1
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
14.6% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$1,251 rent vs county FMR
2.1
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 Mayfair compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 69
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
67%Socioeconomic
15%Household composition
60%Racial/ethnic minority
91%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
0%Grade B
100%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
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
13.9%Housing insecurity
7.6%Utility-shutoff threat
16.3%Food insecurity
12.9%SNAP enrollment
8.0%Transit barriers
10.8%No health insurance
14.7%Frequent mental distress
22.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mayfair
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. 17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened.
On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.1/10. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. The filing record is not thin: 444 evictions over 15 years of observation.
Average gross rent is $1,251, 13% below the Chicago average. Filings peaked in 2001 at 2.9% of renter households. 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 2.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #12,481 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.2/10.
Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter.
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 17031160300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031160300?
Census tract 17031160300 in the Mayfair neighborhood scores 7.1/10 (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 17031160300?
Median gross rent is $1,251/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031160300?
14.6% of residents in tract 17031160300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,685.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031160300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 69th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 67th, household 15th, minority 60th, housing 91th.
Q5
Is tract 17031160300 considered part of Mayfair?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031160300 fall within Mayfair (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031160300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 444 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031160300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.41% of renter households, peaking at 2.9% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031160300 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.9% 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. 7.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031160300 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031160300 scores 7.1/10, 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 17031160300 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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