Columbia Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Elgin
Tract 17089851102 · Kane County, IL · pop 4,396 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 17089851102 covers Columbia Park in Elgin, home to 4,396 residents. For landlords it grades 5.5/10, a moderate reading. It lands near the 58th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 55% of renter households, a severe level, and 30% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,365 monthly, set against $80,387 in average yearly household income, roughly 20% of income at the averages. Renters make up 26% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Elgin and the region
Centroid at 42.0423, -88.3023 · click any tract to drill in
Why Columbia Park scores 3.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Columbia Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 76%Racial/ethnic minority
- 47%Housing & transportation
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)
- 38Total filings over 3 yrs
- 3.43%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.6%Peak (2010)
- 12Filings in 2011 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 19.3%Housing insecurity
- 10.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 23.4%Food insecurity
- 20.3%SNAP enrollment
- 11.1%Transit barriers
- 18.4%No health insurance
- 17.2%Frequent mental distress
- 31.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Columbia Park
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 4.8/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Elgin eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Kane County average of 5.3 and in line with the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 19.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 10.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 73rd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Elgin
Top eight tracts in Elgin ranked by composite eviction-risk score.