Wheeling Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 17031802403 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,392 · 75% of tract blocks fall in Wheeling
Census tract 17031802403 covers part of Wheeling, IL, and scores 5.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. 17% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far below the Cook County average of 45.6%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Wheeling and the region
Centroid at 42.1419, -87.9531 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wheeling scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Wheeling compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 17
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 40%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 27%Racial/ethnic minority
- 6%Housing & transportation
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 15 yrs
- 2.86%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.0%Peak (2012)
- 4Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 6.6%Housing insecurity
- 3.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.9%Food insecurity
- 5.8%SNAP enrollment
- 4.3%Transit barriers
- 5.6%No health insurance
- 11.6%Frequent mental distress
- 23.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Wheeling
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.2/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.9/10.
Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. SNAP participation runs 5.8% against 15.2% nationally.
Court records carry 93 eviction filings across 15 observed years. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points.
Housing insecurity runs 6.6% against 14.2% nationally. At $1,854 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Wheeling commands.
The worst year on record was 2012, when 5.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.9% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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.
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Highest-risk tracts in Wheeling
Top eight tracts in Wheeling ranked by composite eviction-risk score.