Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #16,032 of 84,120 nationally
Roseland Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031490500 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,775 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 17031490500 sits in the Roseland Heights area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.4/10. Population here is 1,775. 38% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
6.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units727
Renter share26.1%
SVI overall0.67
Poverty rate8.0%
Median income$78,319
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
33
th percentile
Low
Within county
52
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
77
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.7179, -87.6132 · click any tract to drill in
Why Roseland Heights scores 6.4
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
8.0% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,497 rent vs county FMR
3.5
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 Roseland Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 67
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 74%Socioeconomic
- 76%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%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
- 6%Grade B
- 30%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)
- 134Total filings over 15 yrs
- 4.66%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.5%Peak (2012)
- 14Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 75% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Roseland Heights. 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.
- 19.8%Housing insecurity
- 11.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.2%Food insecurity
- 19.4%SNAP enrollment
- 11.0%Transit barriers
- 7.7%No health insurance
- 15.8%Frequent mental distress
- 28.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Roseland Heights
What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
On the softer side, economic stress reads 2/10. roughly one in two of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Cook County average of 45.6%. The filing record is not thin: 134 evictions over 15 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 5.5% 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 4.7% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 81% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7/10. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031490500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031490500?
Census tract 17031490500 in the Roseland Heights neighborhood scores 6.4/10 (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 17031490500?
Median gross rent is $1,497/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031490500?
8.0% of residents in tract 17031490500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,775.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031490500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 67th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 76th, minority 96th, housing 23th.
Q5
Is tract 17031490500 considered part of Roseland Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031490500 fall within Roseland Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031490500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 134 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031490500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.66% of renter households, peaking at 5.5% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031490500 struggle to pay rent?
About 19.8% 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. 11.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031490500 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031490500 scores 6.4/10, 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.
Q9
Was tract 17031490500 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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