Within neighborhood
67
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally
Garfield Ridge Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031561000 · Cook County, IL · pop 6,040 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
With a score of 6/10, tract 17031561000 in the Garfield Ridge area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 6,040. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 5%
Stable renters 7%
Owners 88%
Tract context
Occupied units2,294
Renter share12.0%
SVI overall0.30
Poverty rate6.4%
Median income$85,741
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
26
th percentile
Low
Within county
46
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
74
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.7885, -87.7915 · click any tract to drill in
Why Garfield Ridge scores 6
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
6.4% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$1,415 rent vs county FMR
3.0
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 Garfield Ridge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 30
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 32%Socioeconomic
- 40%Household composition
- 60%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
- 0%Grade B
- 28%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)
- 70Total filings over 14 yrs
- 1.40%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.8%Peak (2011)
- 4Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 33% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Garfield Ridge. 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.
- 13.0%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.1%Food insecurity
- 10.9%SNAP enrollment
- 7.2%Transit barriers
- 13.2%No health insurance
- 14.4%Frequent mental distress
- 27.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Garfield Ridge
On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.6/10. The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 70 filings here across 14 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2011 at 1.8% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 1.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 12% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. 43% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. 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 17031561000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031561000?
Census tract 17031561000 in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood scores 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 17031561000?
Median gross rent is $1,415/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031561000?
6.4% of residents in tract 17031561000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,040.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031561000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 30th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 32th, household 40th, minority 60th, housing 23th.
Q5
Is tract 17031561000 considered part of Garfield Ridge?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031561000 fall within Garfield Ridge (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031561000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 70 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 17031561000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.40% of renter households, peaking at 1.8% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031561000 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.0% 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. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031561000 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031561000 scores 6/10, 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 17031561000 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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