Within neighborhood
25
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Central Street Evanston Eviction Risk: Lower , Wilmette
Tract 17031801100 · Cook County, IL · pop 5,045 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 17031801100 sits in the Central Street Evanston eviction risk area of Wilmette, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 5,045 residents. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 3.1 points.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3%
Stable renters 6%
Owners 91%
Tract context
Occupied units1,559
Renter share8.3%
SVI overall0.06
Poverty rate1.6%
Median income$241,174
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
5
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
12
th percentile
Very Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Wilmette and the region
Centroid at 42.0752, -87.7150 · click any tract to drill in
Why Central Street Evanston scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Wilmette
6.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
1.6% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,913 rent vs county FMR
5.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Wilmette
5.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Wilmette
3.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Wilmette
3.8
How Central Street Evanston compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 6
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 3%Socioeconomic
- 12%Household composition
- 17%Racial/ethnic minority
- 27%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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.
- 1%Grade A
- 60%Grade B
- 34%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 38Total filings over 14 yrs
- 1.21%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.5%Peak (2001)
- 2Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 67% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Central Street Evanston. 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.
- 4.8%Housing insecurity
- 2.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 4.7%Food insecurity
- 3.2%SNAP enrollment
- 3.1%Transit barriers
- 3.3%No health insurance
- 10.7%Frequent mental distress
- 16.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Central Street Evanston
Against Cook County at 45.6%, 30% of renters here are cost-burdened. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.
Food insecurity runs 4.7% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 3.2% against 15.2% nationally.
On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 38 evictions over 14 years of observation.
Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 3.1/10. The worst year on record was 2001, when 2.5% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 1.2% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 8% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $241,174, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031801100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031801100?
Census tract 17031801100 in the Central Street Evanston 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 17031801100?
Median gross rent is $1,913/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 30% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031801100?
1.6% of residents in tract 17031801100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,045.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031801100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 6th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 3th, household 12th, minority 17th, housing 27th.
Q5
Is tract 17031801100 considered part of Central Street Evanston?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031801100 fall within Central Street Evanston (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031801100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 38 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 17031801100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.21% of renter households, peaking at 2.5% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031801100 struggle to pay rent?
About 4.8% 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. 2.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031801100 compare to Wilmette overall?
Tract 17031801100 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Wilmette at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Wilmette; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 17031801100 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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.
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