Within parent city
23
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #56,048 of 84,120 nationally
Aurora Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 17089854001 · Kane County, IL · pop 4,076 · 49% of tract blocks fall in Aurora
Census tract 17089854001 covers part of Aurora, IL, and scores 3.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,076. Against Kane County at 45.5%, roughly one in four of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3.6
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3%
Stable renters 9%
Owners 88%
Tract context
Occupied units1,432
Renter share12.6%
SVI overall0.62
Poverty rate6.9%
Median income$106,768
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
43
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
26
th percentile
Low
National
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Aurora and the region
Centroid at 41.7530, -88.3611 · click any tract to drill in
Why Aurora scores 3.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Aurora
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
6.9% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Aurora
2.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Aurora
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Aurora
3.5
How Aurora compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 62
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 60%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 71%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 1%Grade B
- 2%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.
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)
- 10Total filings over 3 yrs
- 1.58%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.9%Peak (2010)
- 2Filings in 2011 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 10.4%Housing insecurity
- 5.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.0%Food insecurity
- 9.6%SNAP enrollment
- 6.3%Transit barriers
- 10.3%No health insurance
- 14.0%Frequent mental distress
- 27.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Aurora
Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.7/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 10 filings here across 3 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2010 at 1.9% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 1.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #56,048 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 13% 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.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.5 points cooler.
It tracks the Kane County average of 4.1 closely.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 17089854001
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17089854001?
Census tract 17089854001 in Aurora scores 3.6/10 (Lower 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 poverty rate in tract 17089854001?
6.9% of residents in tract 17089854001 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,076.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 17089854001?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 62th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 60th, minority 53th, housing 71th.
Q4
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17089854001?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 10 eviction filings across 3 validated years in tract 17089854001 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.58% of renter households, peaking at 1.9% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q5
What share of households in tract 17089854001 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.4% 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. 5.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 17089854001 compare to Aurora overall?
Tract 17089854001 scores 3.6/10, lower than the parent city of Aurora at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Aurora eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7
Was tract 17089854001 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. 9% 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.
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