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Neighborhood · Ranked #12,481 of 84,120 nationally

Clarkdale Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Tract 17031700302 · Cook County, IL · pop 6,003 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

With a score of 7.1/10, tract 17031700302 in the Clarkdale area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 6,003 residents. 39% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
7.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10% Stable renters 3% Owners 87%
Tract context
Occupied units1,804
Renter share13.4%
SVI overall0.78
Poverty rate17.1%
Median income$86,000

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 8 tracts In Clarkdale
High
Within parent city
47 th percentile
Rank, 47th percentileLowHigh
#420 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Moderate
Within county
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#486 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Elevated
Within state
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#543 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.7384, -87.7313 · click any tract to drill in

Why Clarkdale scores 7.1

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
17.1% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$1,364 rent vs county FMR
2.7
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 Clarkdale compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Clarkdale risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.17.1This tracttract 700302Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 78

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

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.

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)

  • 93Total filings over 14 yrs
  • 3.46%Avg annual filing rate
  • 10.1%Peak (2015)
  • 17Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170317003022001: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2002: 2 filings (1.28/100 renter HHs)2003: 2 filings (1.28/100 renter HHs)2004: 6 filings (3.83/100 renter HHs)2005: 2 filings (0.69/100 renter HHs)2006: 5 filings (1.74/100 renter HHs)2007: 3 filings (1.04/100 renter HHs)2008: 11 filings (3.82/100 renter HHs)2009: 7 filings (2.43/100 renter HHs)2010: 3 filings (1.52/100 renter HHs)2011: 8 filings (4.73/100 renter HHs)2012: 9 filings (5.33/100 renter HHs)2013: 8 filings (4.73/100 renter HHs)2014: 10 filings (5.92/100 renter HHs)2015: 17 filings (10.06/100 renter HHs)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Clarkdale. 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 Clarkdale

Cost burden runs 77% here against 45.6% across Cook County. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.1% against 11.3% nationally.

It sits 1.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. The filing record is not thin: 93 evictions over 14 years of observation.

Housing insecurity runs 22.0% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2015 at 10.1% 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 3.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #12,481 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 13% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

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 17031700302

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031700302?

Census tract 17031700302 in the Clarkdale 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 17031700302?

Median gross rent is $1,364/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 77% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031700302?

17.1% of residents in tract 17031700302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,003.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031700302?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 78th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 88th, minority 84th, housing 40th.
Q5

Is tract 17031700302 considered part of Clarkdale?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031700302 fall within Clarkdale (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031700302?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 93 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 17031700302 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.46% of renter households, peaking at 10.1% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031700302 struggle to pay rent?

About 22.0% 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. 11.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031700302 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031700302 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 17031700302 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. 79% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Chicago

Top eight tracts in Chicago ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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