Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
9.9%Housing insecurity
6.4%Utility-shutoff threat
9.2%Food insecurity
7.9%SNAP enrollment
5.7%Transit barriers
5.2%No health insurance
15.9%Frequent mental distress
18.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Scott AFB
The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 10/10. The voucher gap is 53.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.9/10. This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.8/10.
Disability prevalence runs 18.6% against 31.5% nationally. Against the St. Clair County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points. Average gross rent is $1,870, 16% above the Scott AFB average.
Food insecurity runs 9.2% against 17.8% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.8/10. Against average income of $155,000, annual rent is just 14%.
Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.0 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 17163503800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17163503800?
Census tract 17163503800 in Scott AFB scores 3.1/10 (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 average rent in tract 17163503800?
Median gross rent is $1,870/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 14% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17163503800?
7.3% of residents in tract 17163503800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,097.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17163503800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 8th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 18th, household 6th, minority 42th, housing 16th.
Q5
What share of households in tract 17163503800 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.9% 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. 6.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 17163503800 compare to Scott AFB overall?
Tract 17163503800 scores 3.1/10, lower than the parent city of Scott AFB at 4.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Scott AFB; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.