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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Indian Hill Eviction Risk: Lower , Chicago Heights

Tract 17031800500 · Cook County, IL · pop 5,576 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Tract 17031800500 sits in the Indian Hill area of Winnetka, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 5,576 residents. Severe burden reaches 46%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6% Stable renters 4% Owners 90%
Tract context
Occupied units1,841
Renter share10.0%
SVI overall0.14
Poverty rate2.4%
Median income$250,001

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#11 of 11 tracts In Indian Hill
Very Low
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Chicago Heights
Very Low
Within county
5 th percentile
Rank, 5th percentileLowHigh
#1,259 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Very Low
Within state
12 th percentile
Rank, 12th percentileLowHigh
#2,873 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Very Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago Heights and the region

Centroid at 42.1002, -87.7407 · click any tract to drill in

Why Indian Hill scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Chicago Heights
6.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
2.4% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,725 rent vs county FMR
4.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Chicago Heights
9.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Chicago Heights
2.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Chicago Heights
5.7

How Indian Hill compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Indian Hill risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 3.03.0This tracttract 800500Chicago Heights: 6.26.2Chicago Heightsparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 14

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. 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)

  • 34Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 1.70%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.7%Peak (2011)
  • 1Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170318005002001: 4 filings (1.98/100 renter HHs)2002: 4 filings (1.98/100 renter HHs)2003: 3 filings (1.49/100 renter HHs)2004: 1 filings (0.50/100 renter HHs)2005: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2006: 4 filings (2.33/100 renter HHs)2007: 2 filings (1.16/100 renter HHs)2008: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2009: 1 filings (0.58/100 renter HHs)2010: 3 filings (1.63/100 renter HHs)2011: 5 filings (3.65/100 renter HHs)2012: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2013: 4 filings (2.92/100 renter HHs)2014: 2 filings (1.46/100 renter HHs)2015: 1 filings (0.73/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 75% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Indian 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Indian Hill

around two-thirds of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Cook County average of 45.6%. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 3.1 points.

The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9.4/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.

Food insecurity runs 5.9% against 17.8% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.5/10.

Housing insecurity runs 5.6% against 14.2% nationally. Court records carry 34 eviction filings across 12 observed years. The worst year on record was 2011, when 3.7% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 1.7% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031800500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031800500?

Census tract 17031800500 in the Indian Hill neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower 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 17031800500?

Median gross rent is $1,725/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031800500?

2.4% of residents in tract 17031800500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,576.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031800500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 14th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 6th, household 28th, minority 11th, housing 43th.
Q5

Is tract 17031800500 considered part of Indian Hill?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031800500 fall within Indian Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031800500?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 34 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 17031800500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.70% of renter households, peaking at 3.7% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031800500 struggle to pay rent?

About 5.6% 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. 3.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031800500 compare to Chicago Heights overall?

Tract 17031800500 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Chicago Heights at 6.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Chicago eviction risk Heights; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 17031800500 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% 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 Heights

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

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