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Fulton Market District Eviction Risk: Lower , Chicago

Tract 17031833000 · Cook County, IL · pop 4,677 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

The Fulton Market District neighborhood of Chicago anchors census tract 17031833000, which lands at 5.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than about 65% of US census tracts.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 31% of renter households, a high level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $2,956 a month against an average household income of $169,489 a year, roughly 21% of income at the averages. Renters make up 72% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23% Stable renters 49% Owners 28%
Tract context
Occupied units2,969
Renter share72.0%
SVI overall0.12
Poverty rate8.3%
Median income$169,489

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Fulton Market District
Moderate
Within parent city
10 th percentile
Rank, 10th percentileLowHigh
#712 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Very Low
Within county
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#912 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Low
Within state
51 th percentile
Rank, 51st percentileLowHigh
#1,612 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.8853, -87.6572 · click any tract to drill in

Why Fulton Market District scores 3.8

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
8.3% poverty · this tract
2.1
Supply constraint
$2,956 rent vs county FMR
10.0
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 Fulton Market District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Fulton Market District risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 3.83.8This tracttract 833000Chicago: 5.75.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 4.54.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.83.8Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 12

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

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.

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)

  • 399Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 5.29%Avg annual filing rate
  • 11.9%Peak (2001)
  • 27Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170318330002001: 53 filings (11.94/100 renter HHs)2002: 28 filings (6.31/100 renter HHs)2003: 26 filings (5.86/100 renter HHs)2004: 43 filings (9.68/100 renter HHs)2005: 33 filings (8.62/100 renter HHs)2006: 20 filings (5.22/100 renter HHs)2007: 13 filings (3.39/100 renter HHs)2008: 20 filings (5.22/100 renter HHs)2009: 18 filings (4.70/100 renter HHs)2010: 30 filings (4.97/100 renter HHs)2011: 23 filings (2.69/100 renter HHs)2012: 18 filings (2.10/100 renter HHs)2013: 10 filings (1.17/100 renter HHs)2014: 37 filings (4.32/100 renter HHs)2015: 27 filings (3.15/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 49% over the past 15 months.
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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Fulton Market District

What moves this score most is supply constraint at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Chicago eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Cook County average of 5.7 and in line with the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 6% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 12th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031833000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031833000?

Census tract 17031833000 in the Fulton Market District neighborhood scores 3.8/10 (Lower 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 17031833000?

Median gross rent is $2,956/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031833000?

8.3% of residents in tract 17031833000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,677.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031833000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 12th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 7th, household 1th, minority 32th, housing 86th.
Q5

Is tract 17031833000 considered part of Fulton Market District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031833000 fall within Fulton Market District (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031833000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 399 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031833000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.29% of renter households, peaking at 11.9% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031833000 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.5% 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. 4.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031833000 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031833000 scores 3.8/10, lower than the parent city of Chicago at 5.7/10. 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 17031833000 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. 6% 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 Chicago

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

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