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Neighborhood · Ranked #16,032 of 84,120 nationally

Ravenswood Manor Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Tract 17031160602 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,757 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

17031160602 is a census tract in the Ravenswood Manor area of Chicago, IL. It scores 6.4/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,757 residents. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
6.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17% Stable renters 27% Owners 56%
Tract context
Occupied units1,578
Renter share44.5%
SVI overall0.44
Poverty rate13.1%
Median income$96,324

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#4 of 9 tracts In Ravenswood Manor
Elevated
Within parent city
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#531 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Low
Within county
53 th percentile
Rank, 53rd percentileLowHigh
#632 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Moderate
Within state
77 th percentile
Rank, 77th percentileLowHigh
#748 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.9567, -87.7005 · click any tract to drill in

Why Ravenswood Manor scores 6.4

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
13.1% poverty · this tract
3.3
Supply constraint
$1,360 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 Ravenswood Manor compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Ravenswood Manor risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 6.46.4This tracttract 160602Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 44

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 298Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 2.28%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.2%Peak (2001)
  • 18Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170311606022001: 31 filings (3.17/100 renter HHs)2002: 13 filings (1.33/100 renter HHs)2003: 19 filings (1.95/100 renter HHs)2004: 22 filings (2.25/100 renter HHs)2005: 15 filings (2.12/100 renter HHs)2006: 17 filings (2.41/100 renter HHs)2007: 18 filings (2.55/100 renter HHs)2008: 18 filings (2.55/100 renter HHs)2009: 23 filings (3.26/100 renter HHs)2010: 17 filings (2.06/100 renter HHs)2011: 23 filings (2.32/100 renter HHs)2012: 23 filings (2.32/100 renter HHs)2013: 17 filings (1.71/100 renter HHs)2014: 24 filings (2.42/100 renter HHs)2015: 18 filings (1.81/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 42% 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Ravenswood Manor

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

38% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Cook County average of 45.6%. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 298 filings here across 15 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2001, when 3.2% of renter households were served. 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 2.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 81st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $96,324, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely. Average gross rent is $1,360, close to the Chicago average.

44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031160602

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031160602?

Census tract 17031160602 in the Ravenswood Manor neighborhood scores 6.4/10 (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 17031160602?

Median gross rent is $1,360/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031160602?

13.1% of residents in tract 17031160602 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,757.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031160602?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 44th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 46th, household 32th, minority 69th, housing 40th.
Q5

Is tract 17031160602 considered part of Ravenswood Manor?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031160602 fall within Ravenswood Manor (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031160602?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 298 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031160602 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.28% of renter households, peaking at 3.2% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031160602 struggle to pay rent?

About 14.6% 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. 7.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031160602 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031160602 scores 6.4/10, 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 17031160602 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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