Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #17,650 of 84,120 nationally
Corwith Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031580300 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,569 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
With a score of 6.1/10, tract 17031580300 in the Corwith area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.3/10.
Risk score
6.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 78%
Tract context
Occupied units777
Renter share21.8%
SVI overall0.72
Poverty rate6.3%
Median income$83,029
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
27
th percentile
Low
Within county
47
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
75
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.8252, -87.7089 · click any tract to drill in
Why Corwith scores 6.1
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
6.3% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$1,101 rent vs county FMR
1.3
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 Corwith compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 72
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 87%Socioeconomic
- 83%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 13%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
- 0%Grade C
- 67%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)
- 97Total filings over 15 yrs
- 2.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.0%Peak (2011)
- 4Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 43% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Corwith. 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.
- 21.3%Housing insecurity
- 9.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 25.6%Food insecurity
- 15.7%SNAP enrollment
- 10.7%Transit barriers
- 23.1%No health insurance
- 14.6%Frequent mental distress
- 27.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Corwith
On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.6/10.
Against Cook County at 45.6%, 54% of renters here are cost-burdened. Average gross rent is $1,101, 24% below the Chicago average.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 97 filings here across 15 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 25.6% against 17.8% nationally.
Housing insecurity runs 21.3% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2011 at 6.0% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 2.3% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031580300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031580300?
Census tract 17031580300 in the Corwith neighborhood scores 6.1/10 (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 17031580300?
Median gross rent is $1,101/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031580300?
6.3% of residents in tract 17031580300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,569.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031580300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 72th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 87th, household 83th, minority 94th, housing 13th.
Q5
Is tract 17031580300 considered part of Corwith?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031580300 fall within Corwith (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031580300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 97 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031580300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.28% of renter households, peaking at 6.0% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031580300 struggle to pay rent?
About 21.3% 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. 9.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031580300 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031580300 scores 6.1/10, 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 17031580300 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. 67% 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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