Within neighborhood
60
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #23,808 of 84,120 nationally
Hazel Green Eviction Risk: Moderate , Oak Lawn
Tract 17031740400 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,530 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Tract 17031740400 sits in the Hazel Green area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.5/10. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10.
Risk score
5.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 17%
Owners 71%
Tract context
Occupied units1,899
Renter share29.0%
SVI overall0.28
Poverty rate3.4%
Median income$91,042
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
17
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
36
th percentile
Low
Within state
64
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Oak Lawn and the region
Centroid at 41.6872, -87.7193 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hazel Green scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Oak Lawn
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
3.4% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,455 rent vs county FMR
3.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Oak Lawn
5.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Oak Lawn
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Oak Lawn
6.5
How Hazel Green compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 28
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 28%Socioeconomic
- 33%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 41%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
- 31%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)
- 565Total filings over 15 yrs
- 7.64%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.2%Peak (2011)
- 40Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 43% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Hazel Green. 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.
- 11.7%Housing insecurity
- 6.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.5%Food insecurity
- 10.3%SNAP enrollment
- 6.7%Transit barriers
- 7.2%No health insurance
- 16.1%Frequent mental distress
- 23.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Hazel Green
Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
The filing record is not thin: 565 evictions over 15 years of observation. 41% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Cook County average of 45.6%.
Filings peaked in 2011 at 15.2% 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 7.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 3.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.
It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely. Average gross rent is $1,455, close to the Chicago average.
Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $91,042.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031740400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031740400?
Census tract 17031740400 in the Hazel Green neighborhood scores 5.5/10 (Moderate 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 17031740400?
Median gross rent is $1,455/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031740400?
3.4% of residents in tract 17031740400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,530.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031740400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 28th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 28th, household 33th, minority 25th, housing 41th.
Q5
Is tract 17031740400 considered part of Hazel Green?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031740400 fall within Hazel Green (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031740400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 565 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031740400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.64% of renter households, peaking at 15.2% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031740400 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.7% 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. 6.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031740400 compare to Oak Lawn overall?
Tract 17031740400 scores 5.5/10, higher than the parent city of Oak Lawn at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Oak Lawn eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 17031740400 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. 31% 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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