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Neighborhood · Ranked #16,032 of 84,120 nationally

Archer Limits Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Tract 17031835200 · Cook County, IL · pop 2,276 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Tract 17031835200 sits in the Archer Limits area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.4/10. Population here is 2,276. 26% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Cook County average of 45.6%.

Risk score
6.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 11% Stable renters 31% Owners 58%
Tract context
Occupied units680
Renter share42.8%
SVI overall0.74
Poverty rate8.1%
Median income$79,000

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 8 tracts In Archer Limits
Low
Within parent city
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#537 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Low
Within county
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#645 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Moderate
Within state
77 th percentile
Rank, 77th percentileLowHigh
#748 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.7966, -87.7453 · click any tract to drill in

Why Archer Limits scores 6.4

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
8.1% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,181 rent vs county FMR
1.7
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 Archer Limits compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Archer Limits risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 6.46.4This tracttract 835200Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 74

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 138Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 4.03%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.2%Peak (2001)
  • 9Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170318352002001: 18 filings (7.23/100 renter HHs)2002: 10 filings (4.02/100 renter HHs)2003: 12 filings (4.82/100 renter HHs)2004: 7 filings (2.81/100 renter HHs)2005: 4 filings (2.08/100 renter HHs)2006: 7 filings (3.65/100 renter HHs)2007: 6 filings (3.12/100 renter HHs)2008: 6 filings (3.12/100 renter HHs)2009: 5 filings (2.60/100 renter HHs)2010: 9 filings (3.64/100 renter HHs)2011: 10 filings (4.33/100 renter HHs)2012: 13 filings (5.63/100 renter HHs)2013: 11 filings (4.76/100 renter HHs)2014: 11 filings (4.76/100 renter HHs)2015: 9 filings (3.90/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 50% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Archer Limits. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Archer Limits

The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Average gross rent is $1,181, 18% below the Chicago average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 138 filings here across 15 tracked years.

Adults with no health insurance runs 18.8% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2001, when 7.2% of renter households were served. 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 4.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $79,000, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 17031835200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031835200?

Census tract 17031835200 in the Archer Limits neighborhood scores 6.4/10 (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 17031835200?

Median gross rent is $1,181/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031835200?

8.1% of residents in tract 17031835200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,276.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031835200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 74th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 67th, household 54th, minority 87th, housing 73th.
Q5

Is tract 17031835200 considered part of Archer Limits?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031835200 fall within Archer Limits (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031835200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 138 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031835200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.03% of renter households, peaking at 7.2% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031835200 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.2% 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. 8.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031835200 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031835200 scores 6.4/10, 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 17031835200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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

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