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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Oakwood Shores compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 83
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 62%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 91%Housing & transportation
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
- 76%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.
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)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Oakwood Shores. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 16.9%Housing insecurity
- 10.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.2%Food insecurity
- 19.6%SNAP enrollment
- 10.4%Transit barriers
- 8.7%No health insurance
- 14.3%Frequent mental distress
- 29.4%Any disability
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.
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