H &K Trailer Court Eviction Risk: Moderate , Decatur
Tract 17115000400 · Macon County, IL · pop 1,187 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 17115000400 runs through the H &K Trailer Court area of Decatur. With 1,187 residents, it scores 6.4/10 for landlords. It lands near the 85th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 64% of renter households, a severe level, and 19% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $790 monthly, set against $40,658 in average yearly household income, roughly 23% of income at the averages. Renters make up 32% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Decatur and the region
Centroid at 39.8343, -88.9685 · click any tract to drill in
Why H &K Trailer Court scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow H &K Trailer Court compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 43%Household composition
- 75%Racial/ethnic minority
- 35%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.
- 20%Grade A
- 12%Grade B
- 26%Grade C
- 8%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within H &K Trailer Court. 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.
- 25.9%Housing insecurity
- 21.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.9%Food insecurity
- 43.3%SNAP enrollment
- 17.7%Transit barriers
- 11.1%No health insurance
- 20.3%Frequent mental distress
- 41.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in H &K Trailer Court
The score leans hardest on economic stress at $1/10. 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 Decatur eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Macon County average of 5.2 and above the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 8% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
The tract is Black and White and ranks around the 60th 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, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 17115000400
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