Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally
West Lawn Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031650400 · Cook County, IL · pop 6,794 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Tract 17031650400 sits in the West Lawn area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.8/10. It is home to 6,794 residents. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 63% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 5%
Owners 87%
Tract context
Occupied units1,651
Renter share12.6%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate22.9%
Median income$82,758
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
61
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
75
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
89
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.7653, -87.7172 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Lawn scores 7.8
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
22.9% poverty · this tract
5.7
Supply constraint
$1,636 rent vs county FMR
4.3
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 West Lawn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 70%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%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
- 19%Grade C
- 28%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)
- 178Total filings over 15 yrs
- 4.42%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.1%Peak (2015)
- 24Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 85% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within West Lawn. 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.
- 27.5%Housing insecurity
- 13.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.2%Food insecurity
- 25.4%SNAP enrollment
- 14.7%Transit barriers
- 29.2%No health insurance
- 16.3%Frequent mental distress
- 32.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in West Lawn
The severe-burden share is 36%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 29.2% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Housing insecurity runs 27.5% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 178 filings here across 15 tracked years. Average gross rent is $1,636, 14% above the Chicago average.
The worst year on record was 2015, when 7.1% of renter households were served.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031650400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031650400?
Census tract 17031650400 in the West Lawn neighborhood scores 7.8/10 (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 17031650400?
Median gross rent is $1,636/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031650400?
22.9% of residents in tract 17031650400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,794.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031650400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 70th, minority 96th, housing 44th.
Q5
Is tract 17031650400 considered part of West Lawn?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031650400 fall within West Lawn (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031650400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 178 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031650400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.42% of renter households, peaking at 7.1% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031650400 struggle to pay rent?
About 27.5% 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. 13.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031650400 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031650400 scores 7.8/10, 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 17031650400 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. 28% 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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