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Neighborhood · Ranked #19,562 of 84,120 nationally

East Humboldt Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Tract 17031241100 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,650 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Eviction risk in East Humboldt Park in Chicago centers on tract 17031241100, which scores 5.6/10 (Moderate tier) and is home to 3,650 residents. That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

25% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a moderate level, and 12% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,692 monthly, set against $90,822 in average yearly household income, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 67% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17% Stable renters 50% Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units1,664
Renter share66.8%
SVI overall0.28
Poverty rate19.6%
Median income$90,822

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 6 tracts In East Humboldt Park
Very High
Within parent city
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#399 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Moderate
Within county
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#460 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Elevated
Within state
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#660 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.9066, -87.6896 · click any tract to drill in

Why East Humboldt Park scores 5.4

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
19.6% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$1,692 rent vs county FMR
4.6
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 East Humboldt Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
East Humboldt Park risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.45.4This tracttract 241100Chicago: 5.75.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 4.54.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.83.8Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 28

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

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.

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)

  • 529Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 3.18%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.8%Peak (2001)
  • 29Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170312411002001: 69 filings (5.78/100 renter HHs)2002: 45 filings (3.77/100 renter HHs)2003: 46 filings (3.86/100 renter HHs)2004: 37 filings (3.10/100 renter HHs)2005: 43 filings (4.50/100 renter HHs)2006: 33 filings (3.45/100 renter HHs)2007: 34 filings (3.56/100 renter HHs)2008: 21 filings (2.20/100 renter HHs)2009: 27 filings (2.82/100 renter HHs)2010: 34 filings (3.10/100 renter HHs)2011: 29 filings (2.40/100 renter HHs)2012: 23 filings (1.90/100 renter HHs)2013: 34 filings (2.81/100 renter HHs)2014: 25 filings (2.07/100 renter HHs)2015: 29 filings (2.40/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 58% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within East Humboldt Park. 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 East Humboldt 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 in line with the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 28th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 100% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031241100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031241100?

Census tract 17031241100 in the East Humboldt Park neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (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 17031241100?

Median gross rent is $1,692/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 25% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031241100?

19.6% of residents in tract 17031241100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,650.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031241100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 28th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 39th, household 4th, minority 61th, housing 52th.
Q5

Is tract 17031241100 considered part of East Humboldt Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031241100 fall within East Humboldt Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031241100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 529 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031241100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.18% of renter households, peaking at 5.8% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031241100 struggle to pay rent?

About 15.7% 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. 9.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031241100 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031241100 scores 5.4/10, lower than the parent city of Chicago at 5.7/10. 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 17031241100 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.
Sibling tracts

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