Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally
Maplewood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031210900 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,174 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 5.7/10, tract 17031210900 in the Maplewood area of Chicago, IL reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,174. Cost burden runs 21% here against 45.6% across Cook County.
Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9%
Stable renters 36%
Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units1,512
Renter share45.2%
SVI overall0.29
Poverty rate7.8%
Median income$106,083
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
20
th percentile
Low
Within county
40
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
67
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9348, -87.6931 · click any tract to drill in
Why Maplewood scores 5.7
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
7.8% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,803 rent vs county FMR
5.2
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 Maplewood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 29
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 68%Racial/ethnic minority
- 27%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%Grade C
- 61%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)
- 188Total filings over 15 yrs
- 2.06%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.8%Peak (2013)
- 18Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 64% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Maplewood. 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.
- 12.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.3%Food insecurity
- 9.6%SNAP enrollment
- 6.8%Transit barriers
- 10.3%No health insurance
- 14.4%Frequent mental distress
- 19.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Maplewood
The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.9/10. Average gross rent is $1,803, 25% above the Chicago average.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. The severe-burden share is 10%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 188 filings here across 15 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2013 at 2.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 2.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #21,564 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.6/10.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031210900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031210900?
Census tract 17031210900 in the Maplewood neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (Moderate 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 17031210900?
Median gross rent is $1,803/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 21% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031210900?
7.8% of residents in tract 17031210900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,174.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031210900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 29th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 42th, household 11th, minority 68th, housing 27th.
Q5
Is tract 17031210900 considered part of Maplewood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031210900 fall within Maplewood (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031210900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 188 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031210900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.06% of renter households, peaking at 2.8% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031210900 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.6% 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. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031210900 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031210900 scores 5.7/10, 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 17031210900 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 61% 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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