Within parent city
80
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Morton Grove Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 17031808302 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,707 · 93% of tract blocks fall in Morton Grove
Census tract 17031808302 covers part of Morton Grove, IL, and scores 4.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. 49% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 11%
Stable renters 9%
Owners 80%
Tract context
Occupied units1,774
Renter share20.3%
SVI overall0.73
Poverty rate15.0%
Median income$86,161
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
22
th percentile
Low
Within state
48
th percentile
Moderate
National
58
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Morton Grove and the region
Centroid at 42.0323, -87.7668 · click any tract to drill in
Why Morton Grove scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Morton Grove
6.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
15.0% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$1,877 rent vs county FMR
5.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Morton Grove
8.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Morton Grove
3.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Morton Grove
6.4
How Morton Grove compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 64%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
- 2%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)
- 96Total filings over 14 yrs
- 3.72%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.1%Peak (2010)
- 8Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 9.1%Housing insecurity
- 5.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.4%Food insecurity
- 8.9%SNAP enrollment
- 6.0%Transit barriers
- 7.0%No health insurance
- 12.2%Frequent mental distress
- 23.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Morton Grove
What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.4/10. Cost burden runs 54% here against 45.6% across Cook County. It sits 1.3 points below the Cook County average of 6.1.
Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 96 eviction filings across 14 observed years. Average gross rent is $1,877, 13% below the Morton Grove average.
The worst year on record was 2010, when 6.1% 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 3.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Only 20% 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.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031808302
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031808302?
Census tract 17031808302 in Morton Grove scores 4.8/10 (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 17031808302?
Median gross rent is $1,877/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031808302?
15.0% of residents in tract 17031808302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,707.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031808302?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 73th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 95th, minority 67th, housing 64th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031808302?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 96 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 17031808302 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.72% of renter households, peaking at 6.1% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 17031808302 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.1% 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. 5.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 17031808302 compare to Morton Grove overall?
Tract 17031808302 scores 4.8/10, right in line with the parent city of Morton Grove at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Morton Grove; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 17031808302 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
Highest-risk tracts in Morton Grove
Top eight tracts in Morton Grove ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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