Ellsworth Eviction Risk: Elevated , Elmwood Park
Tract 17031831600 · Cook County, IL · pop 7,221 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
17031831600 is a census tract in the Ellsworth area of Chicago, IL. It scores 6.7/10 for landlords. Cost burden runs 63% here against 45.6% across Cook County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Elmwood Park and the region
Centroid at 41.9256, -87.7976 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ellsworth scores 6.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Ellsworth compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 78%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 78%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 83%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)
- 355Total filings over 15 yrs
- 2.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.7%Peak (2011)
- 25Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Ellsworth. 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.
- 21.1%Housing insecurity
- 10.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.0%Food insecurity
- 18.7%SNAP enrollment
- 11.1%Transit barriers
- 22.6%No health insurance
- 15.3%Frequent mental distress
- 31.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Ellsworth
26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.6/10.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.7/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 22.6% against 11.3% nationally.
At $1,181 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Chicago commands. The filing record is not thin: 355 evictions over 15 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 26.0% against 17.8% nationally.
It sits 0.6 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Filings peaked in 2011 at 3.7% of renter households.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 2.2% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #14,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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Highest-risk tracts in Elmwood Park
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