Aurora Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 17089853900 · Kane County, IL · pop 5,381
17089853900 is a census tract in Aurora, IL. It scores 4.5/10 for landlords. It is home to 5,381 residents. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Aurora and the region
Centroid at 41.7579, -88.3441 · click any tract to drill in
Why Aurora scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Aurora compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 38
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 37%Socioeconomic
- 36%Household composition
- 48%Racial/ethnic minority
- 42%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 33%Grade A
- 40%Grade B
- 17%Grade C
- 2%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)
- 50Total filings over 3 yrs
- 4.47%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.2%Peak (2011)
- 19Filings in 2011 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 10.8%Housing insecurity
- 6.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.8%Food insecurity
- 9.4%SNAP enrollment
- 6.8%Transit barriers
- 8.8%No health insurance
- 15.9%Frequent mental distress
- 24.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Aurora
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 2.5/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.5/10. Court records carry 50 eviction filings across 3 observed years.
Against Kane County at 45.5%, 50% of renters here are cost-burdened. The worst year on record was 2011, when 3.2% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Aurora. 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 4.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Only 15% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. The legal-climate inputs (statute speed, court posture, rent-regulation exposure) come from Aurora eviction risk as a whole. Only the economic and supply signals are measured inside this tract.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. It tracks the Kane County average of 4.1 closely. Average gross rent is $1,674, close to the Aurora average.
Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $85,300.
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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