Within neighborhood
60
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #16,571 of 84,120 nationally
West Bucktown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031240800 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,480 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
17031240800 is a census tract in the West Bucktown area of Chicago, IL. It scores 6.3/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 38%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
6.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27%
Stable renters 27%
Owners 46%
Tract context
Occupied units695
Renter share54.1%
SVI overall0.27
Poverty rate13.2%
Median income$103,565
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 41.9120, -87.6995 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Bucktown 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
13.2% poverty · this tract
3.3
Supply constraint
$1,585 rent vs county FMR
4.0
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 West Bucktown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 27
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 22%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 65%Racial/ethnic minority
- 59%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)
- 310Total filings over 15 yrs
- 4.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.3%Peak (2012)
- 31Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 182% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within West 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.
- 13.5%Housing insecurity
- 7.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.6%Food insecurity
- 11.0%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 10.7%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 20.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in West Bucktown
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. 51% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Cook County average of 45.6%.
The filing record is not thin: 310 evictions over 15 years of observation. At $1,585 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Chicago commands.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 7.3% 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 4.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 80% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Social vulnerability reads 3.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. 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.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031240800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031240800?
Census tract 17031240800 in the West Bucktown 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 17031240800?
Median gross rent is $1,585/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031240800?
13.2% of residents in tract 17031240800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,480.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031240800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 27th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 22th, household 8th, minority 65th, housing 59th.
Q5
Is tract 17031240800 considered part of West Bucktown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031240800 fall within West Bucktown (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031240800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 310 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031240800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.16% of renter households, peaking at 7.3% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031240800 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.5% 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. 7.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031240800 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031240800 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 17031240800 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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