Becks Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031680600 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,178 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 17031680600 covers part of the Becks Park area of Chicago, IL, and scores 7.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,178. This is renter territory: 80% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.7833, -87.6522 · click any tract to drill in
Why Becks Park scores 7.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Becks Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 51
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 43%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 12%Housing & transportation
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
- 100%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.
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)
- 511Total filings over 15 yrs
- 9.13%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.3%Peak (2002)
- 25Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Becks Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 29.0%Housing insecurity
- 17.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.2%Food insecurity
- 33.4%SNAP enrollment
- 15.8%Transit barriers
- 13.8%No health insurance
- 18.5%Frequent mental distress
- 32.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Becks Park
The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. Food insecurity runs 35.2% against 17.8% nationally.
21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Housing insecurity runs 29.0% against 14.2% nationally. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.9/10.
It sits 1.6 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. At $1,209 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Chicago commands.
The filing record is not thin: 511 evictions over 15 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2002 at 13.3% of renter households.
This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. In a typical year about 9.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #9,433 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.6/10. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.6 points hotter.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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