Morgan Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago
Tract 17031750200 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,141 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 6.3/10, tract 17031750200 in the Morgan Park area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,141 residents. Severe burden reaches 38%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.6957, -87.6714 · click any tract to drill in
Why Morgan Park scores 6.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Morgan Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 41
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 43%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 79%Racial/ethnic minority
- 33%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 55%Grade B
- 38%Grade C
- 6%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)
- 296Total filings over 15 yrs
- 6.65%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.6%Peak (2013)
- 26Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Morgan 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.
- 15.9%Housing insecurity
- 10.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.9%Food insecurity
- 16.8%SNAP enrollment
- 9.0%Transit barriers
- 6.7%No health insurance
- 14.8%Frequent mental distress
- 27.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Morgan Park
59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Cook County average of 45.6%. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.8/10.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 296 filings here across 15 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2013, when 12.6% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 6.7% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 80th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely. Average gross rent is $1,518, close to the Chicago average.
Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $79,464. 36% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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