Within neighborhood
29
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #12,481 of 84,120 nationally
Forest Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031700100 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,874 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
With a score of 7.1/10, tract 17031700100 in the Forest Hill area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,874. The severe-burden share is 81%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
7.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 1%
Owners 91%
Tract context
Occupied units1,015
Renter share9.0%
SVI overall0.72
Poverty rate15.6%
Median income$79,659
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
48
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
64
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
83
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.7536, -87.6953 · click any tract to drill in
Why Forest Hill scores 7.1
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
15.6% poverty · this tract
3.9
Supply constraint
$1,200 rent vs county FMR
1.8
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 Forest Hill 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.
- 76%Socioeconomic
- 56%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%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
- 60%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)
- 201Total filings over 15 yrs
- 7.20%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.5%Peak (2015)
- 19Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 36% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Forest Hill. 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.
- 28.6%Housing insecurity
- 17.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.6%Food insecurity
- 31.6%SNAP enrollment
- 15.7%Transit barriers
- 17.8%No health insurance
- 17.6%Frequent mental distress
- 32.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Forest Hill
Cost burden runs 88% here against 45.6% across Cook County. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Food insecurity runs 34.6% against 17.8% nationally.
On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.8/10. Housing insecurity runs 28.6% against 14.2% nationally.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. It sits 1.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1.
At $1,200 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 201 filings here across 15 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2015 at 8.5% 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.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031700100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031700100?
Census tract 17031700100 in the Forest Hill neighborhood scores 7.1/10 (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 17031700100?
Median gross rent is $1,200/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 88% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031700100?
15.6% of residents in tract 17031700100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,874.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031700100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 72th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 76th, household 56th, minority 98th, housing 46th.
Q5
Is tract 17031700100 considered part of Forest Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031700100 fall within Forest Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031700100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 201 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031700100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.20% of renter households, peaking at 8.5% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031700100 struggle to pay rent?
About 28.6% 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. 17.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031700100 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031700100 scores 7.1/10, 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 17031700100 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. 60% 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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