Kelvyn Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031200401 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,408 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 17031200401 runs through Kelvyn Park in Chicago. With 3,408 residents, it scores 5.8/10 for landlords. That is riskier than roughly 69% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 42% of renter households, a severe level, and 19% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,148 a month while the average household earns $73,384 a year, roughly 19% of income at the averages. Renters make up 52% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9198, -87.7375 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kelvyn Park scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Kelvyn Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 89%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 43%Housing & transportation
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
- 83%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.
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)
- 250Total filings over 15 yrs
- 2.76%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.5%Peak (2002)
- 17Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Kelvyn Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 27.0%Housing insecurity
- 13.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 33.3%Food insecurity
- 24.6%SNAP enrollment
- 14.1%Transit barriers
- 28.1%No health insurance
- 16.2%Frequent mental distress
- 31.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Kelvyn Park
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Chicago eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Cook County average of 5.7 and above the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
In CDC survey modeling, about 27.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 13.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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