Downtown Business District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pekin
Tract 17179020900 · Tazewell County, IL · pop 1,660 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 17179020900 runs through Downtown Business District in Pekin. With 1,660 residents, it scores 5.2/10 for landlords. That is riskier than about 46% of US census tracts.
39% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 8% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $770 monthly, set against $44,286 in average yearly household income, roughly 21% of income at the averages. About 36% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Pekin and the region
Centroid at 40.5580, -89.6622 · click any tract to drill in
Why Downtown Business District scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Downtown Business District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 56
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 67%Socioeconomic
- 55%Household composition
- 8%Racial/ethnic minority
- 53%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Downtown Business District. 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.
- 17.7%Housing insecurity
- 12.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 25.0%Food insecurity
- 27.6%SNAP enrollment
- 12.2%Transit barriers
- 12.0%No health insurance
- 21.7%Frequent mental distress
- 38.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Downtown Business District
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 7.1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Pekin, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Tazewell County average of 4.9 and in line with the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 17.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 12.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 56th 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, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 17179020900
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Highest-risk tracts in Pekin
Top eight tracts in Pekin ranked by composite eviction-risk score.