Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally

Central Street Evanston Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wilmette

Tract 17031808900 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,160 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 17031808900 covers part of the Central Street Evanston area of Evanston, IL, and scores 5.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,160. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.

Risk score

5.2

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 4% Stable renters 5% Owners 91%

Tract context

Occupied units1,749

Renter share9.0%

SVI overall0.21

Poverty rate2.1%

Median income$192,577

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Wilmette and the region

Centroid at 42.0665, -87.7175 · click any tract to drill in

Why Central Street Evanston scores 5.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Wilmette

7.8

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.5

State political climate

Illinois legislature & governorship

5.2

Economic stress

2.1% poverty · this tract

1.0

Supply constraint

$1,773 rent vs county FMR

5.1

Rent control risk

Inherited from Wilmette

6.3

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

5.0

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Wilmette

8.6

Housing court bias

Inherited from Wilmette

6.1

How Central Street Evanston compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 21

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

2%Socioeconomic
70%Household composition
22%Racial/ethnic minority
50%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.

21%Grade A
44%Grade B
8%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)

53Total filings over 14 yrs
1.44%Avg annual filing rate
3.2%Peak (2001)
3Filings in 2015 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2001 to 2015

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.

4.5%Housing insecurity
2.8%Utility-shutoff threat
4.5%Food insecurity
3.1%SNAP enrollment
2.9%Transit barriers
3.2%No health insurance
10.1%Frequent mental distress
17.2%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Central Street Evanston

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. Food insecurity runs 4.5% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 3.1% against 15.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.8/10. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. Court records carry 53 eviction filings across 14 observed years.

It sits 0.9 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. The worst year on record was 2001, when 3.2% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 1.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

At 9% 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 17031808900

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031808900?

Census tract 17031808900 in the Central Street Evanston neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 17031808900?

Median gross rent is $1,773/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031808900?

2.1% of residents in tract 17031808900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,160.

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031808900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 21th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 2th, household 70th, minority 22th, housing 50th.

Is tract 17031808900 considered part of Central Street Evanston?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031808900 fall within Central Street Evanston (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031808900?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 53 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 17031808900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.44% of renter households, peaking at 3.2% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

What share of households in tract 17031808900 struggle to pay rent?

About 4.5% 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. 2.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 17031808900 compare to Wilmette overall?

Tract 17031808900 scores 5.2/10, higher 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.

Was tract 17031808900 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 Wilmette

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

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org