Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally

Central Station Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Tract 17031330101 · Cook County, IL · pop 5,011 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Tract 17031330101 sits in the Central Station area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.3/10. 9% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far below the Cook County average of 45.6%.

Risk score

5.3

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 2% Stable renters 25% Owners 73%

Tract context

Occupied units2,709

Renter share27.0%

SVI overall0.10

Poverty rate6.0%

Median income$181,013

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.8591, -87.6132 · click any tract to drill in

Why Central Station scores 5.3

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

6.0% poverty · this tract

1.5

Supply constraint

$3,180 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 Central Station compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 10

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

9%Socioeconomic
10%Household composition
62%Racial/ethnic minority
22%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
8%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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Central Station. 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.

7.1%Housing insecurity
4.0%Utility-shutoff threat
7.6%Food insecurity
5.3%SNAP enrollment
4.2%Transit barriers
4.5%No health insurance
11.1%Frequent mental distress
15.8%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Central Station

The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 10/10. At $3,180 a month, rents run 121% over what the rest of Chicago commands. The voucher gap is 80.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.5/10.

Food insecurity runs 7.6% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 5.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. 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.

That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 1.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031330101

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031330101?

Census tract 17031330101 in the Central Station 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.

What is the average rent in tract 17031330101?

Median gross rent is $3,180/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 9% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031330101?

6.0% of residents in tract 17031330101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,011.

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031330101?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 10th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 9th, household 10th, minority 62th, housing 22th.

Is tract 17031330101 considered part of Central Station?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031330101 fall within Central Station (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 17031330101 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.1% 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. 4.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 17031330101 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031330101 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.

Was tract 17031330101 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. 8% 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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