Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #10,320 of 84,120 nationally
Irondale Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031520300 · Cook County, IL · pop 5,925 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
With a score of 7.5/10, tract 17031520300 in the Irondale area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.5
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 19%
Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units2,017
Renter share34.6%
SVI overall0.73
Poverty rate12.9%
Median income$54,175
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
54
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
70
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
87
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.7011, -87.5396 · click any tract to drill in
Why Irondale scores 7.5
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
12.9% poverty · this tract
3.2
Supply constraint
$983 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 Irondale compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 63%Household composition
- 91%Racial/ethnic minority
- 20%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
- 8%Grade C
- 71%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)
- 203Total filings over 15 yrs
- 2.30%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.5%Peak (2013)
- 15Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Irondale. 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.
- 27.2%Housing insecurity
- 13.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.9%Food insecurity
- 26.8%SNAP enrollment
- 14.9%Transit barriers
- 28.7%No health insurance
- 16.4%Frequent mental distress
- 34.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Irondale
The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10. Average gross rent is $983, 32% below the Chicago average. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
Housing insecurity runs 27.2% against 14.2% nationally. It sits 1.4 points above the Cook County average of 6.1.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. SNAP participation runs 26.8% against 15.2% nationally.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 203 filings here across 15 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 3.5% 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 2.3% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #10,320 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031520300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031520300?
Census tract 17031520300 in the Irondale 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 17031520300?
Median gross rent is $983/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031520300?
12.9% of residents in tract 17031520300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,925.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031520300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 73th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 63th, minority 91th, housing 20th.
Q5
Is tract 17031520300 considered part of Irondale?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031520300 fall within Irondale (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031520300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 203 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031520300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.30% of renter households, peaking at 3.5% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031520300 struggle to pay rent?
About 27.2% 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 17031520300 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031520300 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 17031520300 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. 71% 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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