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Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally

Illinois Medical District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Tract 17031838200 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,834 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

Tract 17031838200 sits in the Illinois eviction laws Medical District area of Chicago eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. It is home to 1,834 residents. Cost burden runs 29% here against 45.6% across Cook County.

Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14% Stable renters 34% Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units374
Renter share47.9%
SVI overall0.19
Poverty rate8.7%
Median income$105,667

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Illinois Medical District
Very Low
Within parent city
22 th percentile
Rank, 22nd percentileLowHigh
#621 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Low
Within county
41 th percentile
Rank, 41st percentileLowHigh
#789 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Moderate
Within state
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#994 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.8704, -87.6751 · click any tract to drill in

Why Illinois Medical District scores 5.8

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
8.7% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$1,733 rent vs county FMR
4.8
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 Illinois Medical District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Illinois Medical District risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.85.8This tracttract 838200Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 19

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)

  • 47Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 1.39%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.0%Peak (2001)
  • 3Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170318382002001: 7 filings (1.98/100 renter HHs)2002: 4 filings (1.13/100 renter HHs)2003: 5 filings (1.42/100 renter HHs)2004: 2 filings (0.57/100 renter HHs)2005: 5 filings (2.27/100 renter HHs)2006: 5 filings (2.27/100 renter HHs)2007: 4 filings (1.82/100 renter HHs)2008: 1 filings (0.45/100 renter HHs)2009: 4 filings (1.82/100 renter HHs)2010: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2011: 1 filings (0.43/100 renter HHs)2012: 4 filings (1.72/100 renter HHs)2013: 2 filings (0.86/100 renter HHs)2014: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2015: 3 filings (1.29/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 57% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Illinois Medical District. 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 Illinois Medical District

The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Disability prevalence runs 18.8% against 31.5% nationally. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.2/10. At $1,733 a month, rents run 20% over what the rest of Chicago commands.

The filing record is not thin: 47 evictions over 13 years of observation. SNAP participation runs 7.4% against 15.2% nationally.

Filings peaked in 2001 at 2.0% 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 1.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #20,506 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely.

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 17031838200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031838200?

Census tract 17031838200 in the Illinois Medical District neighborhood scores 5.8/10 (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 17031838200?

Median gross rent is $1,733/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 29% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031838200?

8.7% of residents in tract 17031838200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,834.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031838200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 19th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 0th, minority 78th, housing 60th.
Q5

Is tract 17031838200 considered part of Illinois Medical District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031838200 fall within Illinois Medical District (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031838200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 47 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 17031838200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.39% of renter households, peaking at 2.0% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031838200 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.2% 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. 5.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031838200 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031838200 scores 5.8/10, 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 17031838200 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. 100% 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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