Within neighborhood
60
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally
Smith Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031242700 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,837 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 7.3/10, tract 17031242700 in the Smith Park area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,837 residents. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10.
Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27%
Stable renters 38%
Owners 35%
Tract context
Occupied units806
Renter share64.9%
SVI overall0.55
Poverty rate18.6%
Median income$80,227
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
51
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
68
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
85
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.8974, -87.6994 · click any tract to drill in
Why Smith Park scores 7.3
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
18.6% poverty · this tract
4.6
Supply constraint
$1,601 rent vs county FMR
4.1
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 Smith Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 55
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 54%Socioeconomic
- 33%Household composition
- 68%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 93%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 315Total filings over 15 yrs
- 3.69%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.7%Peak (2009)
- 15Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 42% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Smith 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.
- 18.0%Housing insecurity
- 10.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.0%Food insecurity
- 18.6%SNAP enrollment
- 10.3%Transit barriers
- 13.0%No health insurance
- 16.2%Frequent mental distress
- 24.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Smith Park
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.
Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The filing record is not thin: 315 evictions over 15 years of observation.
Cost burden runs 41% here against 45.6% across Cook County. Average gross rent is $1,601, 11% above the Chicago average.
Filings peaked in 2009 at 5.7% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 3.7% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
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 17031242700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031242700?
Census tract 17031242700 in the Smith Park neighborhood scores 7.3/10 (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 17031242700?
Median gross rent is $1,601/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031242700?
18.6% of residents in tract 17031242700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,837.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031242700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 55th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 54th, household 33th, minority 68th, housing 57th.
Q5
Is tract 17031242700 considered part of Smith Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031242700 fall within Smith Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031242700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 315 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031242700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.69% of renter households, peaking at 5.7% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031242700 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.0% 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. 10.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031242700 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031242700 scores 7.3/10, higher 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 17031242700 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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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