Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally
Riverdale Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 17031826500 · Cook County, IL · pop 5,599 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Tract 17031826500 sits in the Riverdale area of Dolton, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.8/10. It is home to 5,599 residents. Against Cook County at 45.6%, roughly two in three of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 66%
Tract context
Occupied units2,025
Renter share33.7%
SVI overall0.78
Poverty rate24.8%
Median income$58,496
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
80
th percentile
High
Within county
74
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
89
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Riverdale and the region
Centroid at 41.6319, -87.6156 · click any tract to drill in
Why Riverdale scores 7.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Riverdale
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
24.8% poverty · this tract
6.2
Supply constraint
$1,249 rent vs county FMR
2.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Riverdale
9.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Riverdale
6.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Riverdale
8.7
How Riverdale compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 84%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 34%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 5%Grade C
- 27%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)
- 644Total filings over 15 yrs
- 7.75%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.1%Peak (2015)
- 76Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 153% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Riverdale. 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.
- 28.3%Housing insecurity
- 19.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.7%Food insecurity
- 35.6%SNAP enrollment
- 16.3%Transit barriers
- 11.0%No health insurance
- 18.2%Frequent mental distress
- 33.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Riverdale
Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 9.3/10.
SNAP participation runs 35.6% against 15.2% nationally. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.7/10.
Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.1/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 644 filings here across 15 tracked years. Average gross rent is $1,249, 10% below the Dolton average. Filings peaked in 2015 at 10.1% of renter households.
This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 7.8% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 89th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 17031826500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031826500?
Census tract 17031826500 in the Riverdale neighborhood scores 7.8/10 (Elevated 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 17031826500?
Median gross rent is $1,249/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 68% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031826500?
24.8% of residents in tract 17031826500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,599.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031826500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 78th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 83th, household 84th, minority 94th, housing 34th.
Q5
Is tract 17031826500 considered part of Riverdale?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031826500 fall within Riverdale (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031826500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 644 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031826500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.75% of renter households, peaking at 10.1% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031826500 struggle to pay rent?
About 28.3% 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. 19.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031826500 compare to Riverdale overall?
Tract 17031826500 scores 7.8/10, higher than the parent city of Riverdale at 7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Riverdale; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 17031826500 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 27% 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 Riverdale
Top eight tracts in Riverdale ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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