Garden Homes Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago
Tract 17031842400 · Cook County, IL · pop 3,207 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
17031842400 is a census tract in the Garden Homes area of Chicago, IL. It scores 5.3/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,207 residents. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chicago and the region
Centroid at 41.7424, -87.6301 · click any tract to drill in
Why Garden Homes scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Garden Homes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 63
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 66%Socioeconomic
- 78%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 21%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 1%Grade B
- 36%Grade C
- 9%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)
- 415Total filings over 15 yrs
- 5.64%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.0%Peak (2001)
- 31Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Garden Homes. 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.
- 17.7%Housing insecurity
- 10.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.6%Food insecurity
- 15.8%SNAP enrollment
- 9.2%Transit barriers
- 6.5%No health insurance
- 14.0%Frequent mental distress
- 25.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Garden Homes
On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. At $998 a month, rents run 31% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Cook County average of 45.6%. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 415 filings here across 15 tracked years. It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1.
Filings peaked in 2001 at 10.0% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 5.6% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.7/10. Against average income of $100,870, annual rent is just 12%.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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