Evanston Lakeshore Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 17031809900 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,760 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
17031809900 is a census tract in the Evanston Lakeshore Historic District area of Evanston, IL. It scores 5.2/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,760 residents. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.6/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Evanston and the region
Centroid at 42.0376, -87.6753 · click any tract to drill in
Why Evanston Lakeshore Historic District scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Evanston Lakeshore Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 18
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 23%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 45%Racial/ethnic minority
- 41%Housing & transportation
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
- 82%Grade B
- 2%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.
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)
- 103Total filings over 15 yrs
- 1.37%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.7%Peak (2009)
- 6Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Evanston Lakeshore Historic District. 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.
- 6.0%Housing insecurity
- 3.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.1%Food insecurity
- 4.3%SNAP enrollment
- 3.8%Transit barriers
- 4.2%No health insurance
- 11.5%Frequent mental distress
- 17.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Evanston Lakeshore Historic District
19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.8/10.
Running hot, local political climate reads 7.8/10. The filing record is not thin: 103 evictions over 15 years of observation.
Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.2% against 11.3% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
The worst year on record was 2009, when 2.7% 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 1.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.6/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Rent takes 30% or more of income for roughly one in two of renters.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 17031809900
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