Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Skevanston Eviction Risk: Moderate , Skokie
Tract 17031806801 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,334 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Census tract 17031806801 covers part of the Skevanston area of Skokie, IL, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13%
Stable renters 12%
Owners 75%
Tract context
Occupied units1,651
Renter share24.5%
SVI overall0.76
Poverty rate14.4%
Median income$76,726
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
83
th percentile
High
Within county
34
th percentile
Low
Within state
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Skokie and the region
Centroid at 42.0564, -87.7395 · click any tract to drill in
Why Skevanston scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Skokie
6.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
14.4% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$1,596 rent vs county FMR
4.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Skokie
7.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Skokie
5.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Skokie
6.1
How Skevanston compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 76
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 50%Socioeconomic
- 86%Household composition
- 57%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 171Total filings over 15 yrs
- 3.64%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.5%Peak (2012)
- 9Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 47% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Skevanston. 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.
- 9.4%Housing insecurity
- 5.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.1%Food insecurity
- 9.9%SNAP enrollment
- 6.2%Transit barriers
- 7.4%No health insurance
- 12.3%Frequent mental distress
- 27.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Skevanston
What pushes it up most is regional political climate at 7.5/10. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 53% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.1/10. The filing record is not thin: 171 evictions over 15 years of observation. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 6.5% of renter households. 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 3.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 25% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
Statute speed, court posture and rent-regulation exposure are inherited from Skokie eviction risk rather than measured on these blocks; the economic and supply components are the tract-level part of the score.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031806801
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031806801?
Census tract 17031806801 in the Skevanston neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (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 17031806801?
Median gross rent is $1,596/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031806801?
14.4% of residents in tract 17031806801 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,334.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031806801?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 76th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 50th, household 86th, minority 57th, housing 87th.
Q5
Is tract 17031806801 considered part of Skevanston?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031806801 fall within Skevanston (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031806801?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 171 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031806801 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.64% of renter households, peaking at 6.5% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031806801 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.4% 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. 5.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031806801 compare to Skokie overall?
Tract 17031806801 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Skokie at 5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Skokie eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 17031806801 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.
Sibling tracts
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Top eight tracts in Skokie ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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6.4
/ 10 · Elevated
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5.7
/ 10 · Elevated
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17031806900
5.1
/ 10 · Moderate
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4.4
/ 10 · Moderate
Tract · IL
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4.3
/ 10 · Moderate
Tract · IL
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4.2
/ 10 · Moderate
Tract · IL
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3.9
/ 10 · Low
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3.6
/ 10 · Low
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