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Neighborhood · Ranked #10,320 of 84,120 nationally

South Branch Addition Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Tract 17031340300 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,698 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

With a score of 7.5/10, tract 17031340300 in the South Branch Addition area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,698 residents. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10.

Risk score
7.5
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27% Stable renters 30% Owners 43%
Tract context
Occupied units716
Renter share57.7%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate13.4%
Median income$50,543

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 6 tracts In South Branch Addition
Low
Within parent city
54 th percentile
Rank, 54th percentileLowHigh
#364 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Moderate
Within county
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#402 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Elevated
Within state
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#435 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.8428, -87.6358 · click any tract to drill in

Why South Branch Addition scores 7.5

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
13.4% poverty · this tract
3.3
Supply constraint
$995 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 South Branch Addition compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
South Branch Addition risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.57.5This tracttract 340300Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 85

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)

  • 24Total filings over 11 yrs
  • 0.55%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.3%Peak (2014)
  • 1Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170313403002001: 1 filings (0.25/100 renter HHs)2002: 1 filings (0.25/100 renter HHs)2003: 4 filings (1.00/100 renter HHs)2004: 4 filings (1.00/100 renter HHs)2005: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2006: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2007: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2008: 2 filings (0.45/100 renter HHs)2009: 1 filings (0.22/100 renter HHs)2010: 2 filings (0.53/100 renter HHs)2011: 2 filings (0.52/100 renter HHs)2012: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2013: 1 filings (0.26/100 renter HHs)2014: 5 filings (1.29/100 renter HHs)2015: 1 filings (0.26/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within South Branch Addition. 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 South Branch Addition

Average gross rent is $995, 31% below the Chicago average. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Severe burden reaches 18%. 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 1.4 points.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. The filing record is not thin: 24 evictions over 11 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2014, 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 0.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 8.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

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 17031340300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031340300?

Census tract 17031340300 in the South Branch Addition neighborhood scores 7.5/10 (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 17031340300?

Median gross rent is $995/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031340300?

13.4% of residents in tract 17031340300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,698.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031340300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 83th, household 87th, minority 89th, housing 60th.
Q5

Is tract 17031340300 considered part of South Branch Addition?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031340300 fall within South Branch Addition (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031340300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 24 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 17031340300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.55% of renter households, peaking at 1.3% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031340300 struggle to pay rent?

About 12.6% 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. 6.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031340300 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031340300 scores 7.5/10, 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 17031340300 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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