Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Pulaski Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031241400 · Cook County, IL · pop 5,584 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 5.3/10, tract 17031241400 in the Pulaski Park area of Chicago, IL reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,584 residents. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 20% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 55%
Owners 31%
Tract context
Occupied units2,600
Renter share68.4%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate5.2%
Median income$200,429
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
13
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 41.9060, -87.6753 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pulaski Park 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
5.2% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$2,654 rent vs county FMR
10.0
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 Pulaski Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 15
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 12%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 41%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%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)
- 177Total filings over 15 yrs
- 0.77%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.3%Peak (2004)
- 10Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 47% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Pulaski 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.
- 7.5%Housing insecurity
- 4.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.1%Food insecurity
- 5.0%SNAP enrollment
- 4.6%Transit barriers
- 5.4%No health insurance
- 14.1%Frequent mental distress
- 15.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Pulaski Park
What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 10/10. At $2,654 a month, rents run 84% over what the rest of Chicago commands. The voucher gap is 50.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.3/10. This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Food insecurity runs 7.1% against 17.8% nationally.
SNAP participation runs 5.0% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 177 evictions over 15 years of observation. 9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. The worst year on record was 2004, when 1.3% of renter households were served. 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 0.8% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031241400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031241400?
Census tract 17031241400 in the Pulaski Park 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 17031241400?
Median gross rent is $2,654/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 20% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031241400?
5.2% of residents in tract 17031241400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,584.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031241400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 12th, household 2th, minority 41th, housing 65th.
Q5
Is tract 17031241400 considered part of Pulaski Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031241400 fall within Pulaski Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031241400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 177 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031241400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.77% of renter households, peaking at 1.3% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031241400 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.5% 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. 4.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031241400 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031241400 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 17031241400 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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