Within neighborhood
86
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #11,988 of 84,120 nationally
Archer Limits Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031560400 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,744 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Census tract 17031560400 covers part of the Archer Limits area of Chicago, IL, and scores 7.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,744 residents. Severe burden reaches 100%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.2
Elevated
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 0%
Owners 94%
Tract context
Occupied units475
Renter share5.9%
SVI overall0.77
Poverty rate15.7%
Median income$74,554
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
48
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
65
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
84
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.8040, -87.7406 · click any tract to drill in
Why Archer Limits scores 7.2
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
15.7% poverty · this tract
3.9
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Archer Limits compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 81%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 20%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
- 0%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 21Total filings over 11 yrs
- 0.00%Avg annual filing rate
- 33.3%Peak (2012)
- 3Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 200% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Archer Limits. 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.
- 25.1%Housing insecurity
- 12.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 33.1%Food insecurity
- 25.5%SNAP enrollment
- 13.8%Transit barriers
- 27.1%No health insurance
- 16.2%Frequent mental distress
- 35.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Archer Limits
100% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Cook County average of 45.6%. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Food insecurity runs 33.1% against 17.8% nationally.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. SNAP participation runs 25.5% against 15.2% nationally.
Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 21 filings here across 11 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2012 at 33.3% 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. On the national scale it lands near the 86th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Recent filings have not receded much: 25.0% in 2015.
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 17031560400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031560400?
Census tract 17031560400 in the Archer Limits neighborhood scores 7.2/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 17031560400?
15.7% of residents in tract 17031560400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,744.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031560400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 77th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 81th, household 96th, minority 88th, housing 20th.
Q4
Is tract 17031560400 considered part of Archer Limits?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031560400 fall within Archer Limits (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031560400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 21 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 17031560400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.00% of renter households, peaking at 33.3% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 17031560400 struggle to pay rent?
About 25.1% 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. 12.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 17031560400 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031560400 scores 7.2/10, 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.
Q8
Was tract 17031560400 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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