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Neighborhood · Ranked #9,927 of 84,120 nationally

Stony Island Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Tract 17031480100 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,161 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

17031480100 is a census tract in the Stony Island Park area of Chicago, IL. It scores 7.6/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,161. Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7.6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12% Stable renters 15% Owners 73%
Tract context
Occupied units915
Renter share27.2%
SVI overall0.53
Poverty rate19.2%
Median income$71,719

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Stony Island Park
Very Low
Within parent city
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#346 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Elevated
Within county
72 th percentile
Rank, 72nd percentileLowHigh
#378 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Elevated
Within state
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#402 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.7352, -87.5757 · click any tract to drill in

Why Stony Island Park scores 7.6

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
19.2% poverty · this tract
4.8
Supply constraint
$1,074 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 Stony Island Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Stony Island Park risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.67.6This tracttract 480100Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 53

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

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.

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)

  • 176Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 7.42%Avg annual filing rate
  • 13.2%Peak (2001)
  • 7Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170314801002001: 21 filings (13.21/100 renter HHs)2002: 17 filings (10.69/100 renter HHs)2003: 16 filings (10.06/100 renter HHs)2004: 12 filings (7.55/100 renter HHs)2005: 16 filings (9.70/100 renter HHs)2006: 11 filings (6.67/100 renter HHs)2007: 7 filings (4.24/100 renter HHs)2008: 10 filings (6.06/100 renter HHs)2009: 6 filings (3.64/100 renter HHs)2010: 15 filings (8.15/100 renter HHs)2011: 10 filings (6.94/100 renter HHs)2012: 13 filings (9.03/100 renter HHs)2013: 9 filings (6.25/100 renter HHs)2014: 6 filings (4.17/100 renter HHs)2015: 7 filings (4.86/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 67% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Stony Island 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Stony Island Park

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,074, 25% below the Chicago average.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. SNAP participation runs 24.7% against 15.2% nationally.

Court records carry 176 eviction filings across 15 observed years. Food insecurity runs 24.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Filings peaked in 2001 at 13.2% 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 7.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.8/10.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 17031480100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031480100?

Census tract 17031480100 in the Stony Island Park neighborhood scores 7.6/10 (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 17031480100?

Median gross rent is $1,074/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031480100?

19.2% of residents in tract 17031480100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,161.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031480100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 53th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 48th, household 49th, minority 100th, housing 37th.
Q5

Is tract 17031480100 considered part of Stony Island Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031480100 fall within Stony Island Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031480100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 176 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031480100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.42% of renter households, peaking at 13.2% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031480100 struggle to pay rent?

About 20.3% 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. 13.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031480100 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031480100 scores 7.6/10, 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 17031480100 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.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Chicago ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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