Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Bucktown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031832200 ·
Cook County, IL · pop 3,216 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 17031832200 sits in the Bucktown area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.3/10. Population here is 3,216. Cost burden runs 23% here against 45.6% across Cook County.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13%Stable renters 46%Owners 41%
Tract context
Occupied units1,675
Renter share59.3%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate7.0%
Median income$152,902
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
20th percentile
#5 of 6 tracts In Bucktown
Low
Within parent city
14th percentile
#678 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Very Low
Within county
26th percentile
#987 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Low
Within state
59th percentile
#1,346 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.9205, -87.6800 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bucktown scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Chicago
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.5
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
7.0% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$1,893 rent vs county FMR
5.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Chicago
5.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Chicago
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Chicago
6.5
How Bucktown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
8%Socioeconomic
0%Household composition
41%Racial/ethnic minority
42%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
0%Grade C
99%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
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
7.7%Housing insecurity
4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
7.2%Food insecurity
5.1%SNAP enrollment
4.6%Transit barriers
5.5%No health insurance
14.4%Frequent mental distress
14.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bucktown
The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,893, 31% above the Chicago average.
Disability prevalence runs 14.9% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.8/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.
Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Food insecurity runs 7.2% against 17.8% nationally.
Court records carry 106 eviction filings across 15 observed years. It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. Filings peaked in 2001 at 1.4% 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 0.7% of renter households face a filing.
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 17031832200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031832200?
Census tract 17031832200 in the Bucktown neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (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 17031832200?
Median gross rent is $1,893/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 23% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17031832200?
7.0% of residents in tract 17031832200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,216.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17031832200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 8th, household 0th, minority 41th, housing 42th.
Q5
Is tract 17031832200 considered part of Bucktown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031832200 fall within Bucktown (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031832200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 106 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031832200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.70% of renter households, peaking at 1.4% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 17031832200 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.7% 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. 4.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 17031832200 compare to Chicago overall?
Tract 17031832200 scores 5.3/10, lower than the parent city of Chicago at 6.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Chicago eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 17031832200 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. 99% 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.
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