Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #13,812 of 84,120 nationally
Chatham Fields Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031440300 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,650 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 17031440300 covers part of the Chatham Fields area of Chicago, IL, and scores 6.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,650. The severe-burden share is 37%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
6.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 66%
Tract context
Occupied units2,150
Renter share34.7%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate6.5%
Median income$55,476
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
41
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
59
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
81
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.7437, -87.6195 · click any tract to drill in
Why Chatham Fields scores 6.8
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
6.5% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$1,081 rent vs county FMR
1.1
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 Chatham Fields compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 64
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 26%Household composition
- 100%Racial/ethnic minority
- 36%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 62%Grade B
- 38%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)
- 841Total filings over 15 yrs
- 5.88%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.6%Peak (2002)
- 56Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 30% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Chatham Fields. 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.
- 20.1%Housing insecurity
- 13.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 23.4%Food insecurity
- 22.7%SNAP enrollment
- 11.4%Transit barriers
- 7.2%No health insurance
- 14.5%Frequent mental distress
- 29.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Chatham Fields
Cost burden runs 61% here against 45.6% across Cook County. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1.1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
Running cool, economic stress reads 1.6/10. At $1,081 a month, rents run 25% under what the rest of Chicago commands.
The filing record is not thin: 841 evictions over 15 years of observation. SNAP participation runs 22.7% against 15.2% nationally.
It sits 0.7 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Filings peaked in 2002 at 10.6% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. In a typical year about 5.9% 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 17031440300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031440300?
Census tract 17031440300 in the Chatham Fields neighborhood scores 6.8/10 (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 17031440300?
Median gross rent is $1,081/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031440300?
6.5% of residents in tract 17031440300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,650.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031440300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 26th, minority 100th, housing 36th.
Q5
Is tract 17031440300 considered part of Chatham Fields?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031440300 fall within Chatham Fields (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031440300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 841 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031440300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.88% of renter households, peaking at 10.6% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031440300 struggle to pay rent?
About 20.1% 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. 13.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031440300 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031440300 scores 6.8/10, right in line with 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 17031440300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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