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Neighborhood · Ranked #9,927 of 84,120 nationally

Oakwood Shores Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Tract 17031839500 · Cook County, IL · pop 1,804 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

With a score of 7.6/10, tract 17031839500 in the Oakwood Shores area of Chicago, IL reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,804 residents. At $343 a month, rents run 76% under what the rest of Chicago commands.

Risk score
7.6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22% Stable renters 31% Owners 47%
Tract context
Occupied units777
Renter share53.3%
SVI overall0.83
Poverty rate15.2%
Median income$55,625

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
23 th percentile
Rank, 23rd percentileLowHigh
#11 of 14 tracts In Oakwood Shores
Low
Within parent city
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#343 of 792 tracts In Chicago
Elevated
Within county
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#396 of 1,331 tracts In Cook County
Elevated
Within state
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#402 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.8341, -87.6193 · click any tract to drill in

Why Oakwood Shores scores 7.6

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
15.2% poverty · this tract
3.8
Supply constraint
$343 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Oakwood Shores compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Oakwood Shores risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.67.6This tracttract 839500Chicago: 6.76.7Chicagoparent cityCounty: 6.16.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.15.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 83

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)

  • 193Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 2.65%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.8%Peak (2004)
  • 10Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 170318395002001: 12 filings (2.29/100 renter HHs)2002: 7 filings (1.34/100 renter HHs)2003: 13 filings (2.49/100 renter HHs)2004: 20 filings (3.82/100 renter HHs)2005: 9 filings (1.54/100 renter HHs)2006: 13 filings (2.22/100 renter HHs)2007: 9 filings (1.54/100 renter HHs)2008: 20 filings (3.41/100 renter HHs)2009: 10 filings (1.71/100 renter HHs)2010: 16 filings (3.11/100 renter HHs)2011: 13 filings (3.31/100 renter HHs)2012: 13 filings (3.31/100 renter HHs)2013: 11 filings (2.80/100 renter HHs)2014: 17 filings (4.33/100 renter HHs)2015: 10 filings (2.54/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 17% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Oakwood Shores. 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 Oakwood Shores

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

It sits 1.5 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Court records carry 193 eviction filings across 15 observed years. Cost burden runs 41% here against 45.6% across Cook County. Filings peaked in 2004 at 3.8% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 2.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #9,927 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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 17031839500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17031839500?

Census tract 17031839500 in the Oakwood Shores neighborhood scores 7.6/10 (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 17031839500?

Median gross rent is $343/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17031839500?

15.2% of residents in tract 17031839500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,804.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17031839500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 83th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 62th, household 73th, minority 89th, housing 91th.
Q5

Is tract 17031839500 considered part of Oakwood Shores?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17031839500 fall within Oakwood Shores (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17031839500?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 193 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 17031839500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.65% of renter households, peaking at 3.8% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 17031839500 struggle to pay rent?

About 16.9% 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. 10.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 17031839500 compare to Chicago overall?

Tract 17031839500 scores 7.6/10, higher 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 17031839500 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. 76% 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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Top eight tracts in Chicago ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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