Within neighborhood
14
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally
Cragin Eviction Risk: High , Chicago
Tract 17031250300 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,844 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
With a score of 8/10, tract 17031250300 in the Cragin area of Chicago, IL reads high for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 39%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 25%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 54%
Tract context
Occupied units1,648
Renter share46.0%
SVI overall0.88
Poverty rate19.8%
Median income$64,537
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
65
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
79
th percentile
High
Within state
91
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9128, -87.7609 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cragin scores 8
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
19.8% poverty · this tract
5.0
Supply constraint
$1,144 rent vs county FMR
1.5
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 Cragin compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 31%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
- 77%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)
- 871Total filings over 15 yrs
- 6.98%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.7%Peak (2002)
- 58Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Cragin. 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.
- 32.0%Housing insecurity
- 19.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.6%Food insecurity
- 38.4%SNAP enrollment
- 18.4%Transit barriers
- 21.5%No health insurance
- 18.5%Frequent mental distress
- 36.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Cragin
Food insecurity runs 40.6% against 17.8% nationally. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. It sits 1.9 points above the Cook County average of 6.1.
On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. Cost burden runs 55% here against 45.6% across Cook County. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
At $1,144 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.5% against 11.3% nationally. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 871 filings here across 15 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2002, when 8.7% of renter households were served.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031250300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031250300?
Census tract 17031250300 in the Cragin neighborhood scores 8/10 (High 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 17031250300?
Median gross rent is $1,144/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031250300?
19.8% of residents in tract 17031250300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,844.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031250300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 88th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 94th, minority 94th, housing 31th.
Q5
Is tract 17031250300 considered part of Cragin?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031250300 fall within Cragin (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031250300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 871 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031250300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.98% of renter households, peaking at 8.7% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031250300 struggle to pay rent?
About 32.0% 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. 19.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031250300 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031250300 scores 8/10, 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 17031250300 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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