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Neighborhood · Ranked #16,571 of 84,120 nationally

Clearing Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Tract 17031640700 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,110 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

With a score of 6.3/10, tract 17031640700 in the Clearing area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,110. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.

Risk score
6.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12% Stable renters 12% Owners 76%
Tract context
Occupied units1,063
Renter share23.9%
SVI overall0.74
Poverty rate7.3%
Median income$78,533

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
60 th percentile
Rank, 60th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 6 tracts In Clearing
Elevated
Within parent city
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#540 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Low
Within county
51 th percentile
Rank, 51st percentileLowHigh
#660 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Moderate
Within state
76 th percentile
Rank, 76th percentileLowHigh
#773 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.7764, -87.7519 · click any tract to drill in

Why Clearing scores 6.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
7.3% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$1,540 rent vs county FMR
3.7
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 Clearing compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Clearing risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 6.36.3This tracttract 640700Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 74

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 107Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 3.77%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.7%Peak (2002)
  • 7Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170316407002001: 4 filings (2.38/100 renter HHs)2002: 13 filings (7.74/100 renter HHs)2003: 5 filings (2.98/100 renter HHs)2004: 1 filings (0.60/100 renter HHs)2005: 6 filings (2.91/100 renter HHs)2006: 9 filings (4.37/100 renter HHs)2007: 9 filings (4.37/100 renter HHs)2008: 9 filings (4.37/100 renter HHs)2009: 6 filings (2.91/100 renter HHs)2010: 8 filings (4.04/100 renter HHs)2011: 10 filings (5.38/100 renter HHs)2012: 11 filings (5.91/100 renter HHs)2013: 6 filings (3.23/100 renter HHs)2014: 3 filings (1.61/100 renter HHs)2015: 7 filings (3.76/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 75% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Clearing. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Clearing

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.8/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. 14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The filing record is not thin: 107 evictions over 15 years of observation. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.7% against 11.3% nationally. Cost burden runs 50% here against 45.6% across Cook County.

The worst year on record was 2002, when 7.7% of renter households were served. 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 3.8% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #16,571 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 24% 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.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.6/10.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031640700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031640700?

Census tract 17031640700 in the Clearing neighborhood scores 6.3/10 (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 17031640700?

Median gross rent is $1,540/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031640700?

7.3% of residents in tract 17031640700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,110.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031640700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 74th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 76th, household 77th, minority 83th, housing 42th.
Q5

Is tract 17031640700 considered part of Clearing?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031640700 fall within Clearing (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031640700?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 107 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031640700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.77% of renter households, peaking at 7.7% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031640700 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.7% 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. 9.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031640700 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031640700 scores 6.3/10, 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 17031640700 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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