Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #45,786 of 84,120 nationally
Wood River Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 17119401901 · Madison County, IL · pop 1,703 · 44% of tract blocks fall in Wood River
Tract 17119401901 sits in Wood River, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.2/10. Population here is 1,703. Severe burden reaches 40%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10%
Stable renters 9%
Owners 81%
Tract context
Occupied units758
Renter share19.0%
SVI overall0.09
Poverty rate10.0%
Median income$77,500
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
42
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
38
th percentile
Low
National
46
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Wood River and the region
Centroid at 38.8698, -90.0499 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wood River scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Wood River
4.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.3
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
10.0% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$1,024 rent vs county FMR
3.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Wood River
5.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Wood River
6.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Wood River
5.6
How Wood River compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 14%Socioeconomic
- 20%Household composition
- 2%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%Housing & transportation
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)
- 39Total filings over 11 yrs
- 2.77%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.5%Peak (2013)
- 7Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 250% over the past 11 months.
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.
- 9.0%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.3%Food insecurity
- 9.3%SNAP enrollment
- 5.8%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 16.0%Frequent mental distress
- 29.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Wood River
Cost burden runs 53% here against 42.1% across Madison County. The main counterweight is economic stress at 2.5/10.
The filing record is not thin: 39 evictions over 11 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 10.3% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,024, 9% above the Wood River average.
The worst year on record was 2013, when 5.5% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.8% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 46th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 19% 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.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.8/10. Against average income of $77,500, annual rent is just 16%. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 17119401901
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17119401901?
Census tract 17119401901 in Wood River scores 4.2/10 (Moderate 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 average rent in tract 17119401901?
Median gross rent is $1,024/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17119401901?
10.0% of residents in tract 17119401901 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,703.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17119401901?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 9th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 14th, household 20th, minority 2th, housing 19th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 17119401901?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 39 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 17119401901 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.77% of renter households, peaking at 5.5% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 17119401901 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.0% 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. 5.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 17119401901 compare to Wood River overall?
Tract 17119401901 scores 4.2/10, right in line with the parent city of Wood River at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Wood River; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Wood River
Top eight tracts in Wood River ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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