Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #16,571 of 84,120 nationally
Ravenswood Manor Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031160501 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,270 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 17031160501 sits in the Ravenswood Manor area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.3/10. It is home to 3,270 residents. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Risk score
6.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 39%
Owners 37%
Tract context
Occupied units1,410
Renter share63.2%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate6.8%
Median income$76,514
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
32
th percentile
Low
Within county
51
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
76
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9592, -87.7130 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ravenswood Manor scores 6.3
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
6.8% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,385 rent vs county FMR
2.9
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 Ravenswood Manor 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.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 324Total filings over 15 yrs
- 2.79%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.0%Peak (2012)
- 19Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 21% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Ravenswood Manor. 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.
- 19.7%Housing insecurity
- 10.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.4%Food insecurity
- 19.6%SNAP enrollment
- 11.1%Transit barriers
- 18.1%No health insurance
- 15.8%Frequent mental distress
- 27.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Ravenswood Manor
On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.7/10. Cost burden runs 38% here against 45.6% across Cook County. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 324 filings here across 15 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 4.0% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Chicago. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 2.8% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 80% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.8/10. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely.
Average gross rent is $1,385, close to the Chicago average.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031160501
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031160501?
Census tract 17031160501 in the Ravenswood Manor neighborhood scores 6.3/10 (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 17031160501?
Median gross rent is $1,385/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031160501?
6.8% of residents in tract 17031160501 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,270.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031160501?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 79th, household 8th, minority 80th, housing 68th.
Q5
Is tract 17031160501 considered part of Ravenswood Manor?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031160501 fall within Ravenswood Manor (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031160501?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 324 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031160501 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.79% of renter households, peaking at 4.0% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031160501 struggle to pay rent?
About 19.7% 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. 10.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031160501 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031160501 scores 6.3/10, 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 17031160501 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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