Within neighborhood
60
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Bucktown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031240300 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,272 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 5.3/10, tract 17031240300 in the Bucktown area of Chicago, IL reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,272. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 26% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 11%
Stable renters 33%
Owners 56%
Tract context
Occupied units610
Renter share43.9%
SVI overall0.02
Poverty rate6.4%
Median income$142,292
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
10
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
29
th percentile
Low
Within state
59
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9124, -87.6751 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bucktown scores 5.3
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
6.4% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$2,175 rent vs county FMR
7.4
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 Bucktown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 2
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 1%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 38%Racial/ethnic minority
- 21%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
- 100%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)
- 35Total filings over 14 yrs
- 0.65%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.7%Peak (2003)
- 1Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 67% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Bucktown. 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.
- 7.3%Housing insecurity
- 4.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.9%Food insecurity
- 4.8%SNAP enrollment
- 4.4%Transit barriers
- 5.1%No health insurance
- 13.9%Frequent mental distress
- 14.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bucktown
At $2,175 a month, rents run 51% over what the rest of Chicago commands. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 14.7% against 31.5% nationally.
Running cool, economic stress reads 1.6/10. The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
The voucher gap is 23.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. SNAP participation runs 4.8% against 15.2% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 35 evictions over 14 years of observation. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Filings peaked in 2003 at 1.7% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 0.6% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031240300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031240300?
Census tract 17031240300 in the Bucktown neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (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 17031240300?
Median gross rent is $2,175/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031240300?
6.4% of residents in tract 17031240300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,272.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031240300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 2th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 1th, household 2th, minority 38th, housing 21th.
Q5
Is tract 17031240300 considered part of Bucktown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031240300 fall within Bucktown (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031240300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 35 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 17031240300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.65% of renter households, peaking at 1.7% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031240300 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.3% 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. 4.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031240300 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031240300 scores 5.3/10, 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 17031240300 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. 100% 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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