Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #41,065 of 84,120 nationally
Preston Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 17197883100 · Will County, IL · pop 4,243 · 36% of tract blocks fall in Preston Heights
How risky is Preston Heights for landlords? Census tract 17197883100 scores $1/10, the Elevated tier. That is riskier than roughly 75% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
56% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 17% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,292 a month against an average household income of $65,436 a year, roughly 24% of income at the averages. Renters make up 36% of occupied homes.
Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 16%
Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,487
Renter share35.7%
SVI overall0.96
Poverty rate9.9%
Median income$65,436
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
91
th percentile
Very High
Within state
54
th percentile
Moderate
National
51
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Preston Heights and the region
Centroid at 41.4832, -88.0755 · click any tract to drill in
Why Preston Heights scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Preston Heights
5.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.4
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
9.9% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$1,292 rent vs county FMR
2.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Preston Heights
8.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Preston Heights
8.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Preston Heights
7.4
How Preston Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 96
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 82%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%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
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 15%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.
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.
- 20.8%Housing insecurity
- 12.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.9%Food insecurity
- 23.6%SNAP enrollment
- 12.1%Transit barriers
- 14.2%No health insurance
- 18.1%Frequent mental distress
- 33.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Preston Heights
What moves this score most is rent-control risk at 8.6/10. 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 Preston Heights, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Will County average of 4.9 and above the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 15% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.
In CDC survey modeling, about 20.8% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 12.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
Frequently asked
About tract 17197883100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17197883100?
Census tract 17197883100 in Preston Heights scores 4/10 (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 17197883100?
Median gross rent is $1,292/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 17197883100?
9.9% of residents in tract 17197883100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,243.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 17197883100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 96th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 88th, household 94th, minority 82th, housing 93th.
Q5
What share of households in tract 17197883100 struggle to pay rent?
About 20.8% 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. 12.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 17197883100 compare to Preston Heights overall?
Tract 17197883100 scores 4/10, lower than the parent city of Preston Heights at 4.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Preston Heights; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7
Was tract 17197883100 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. 15% 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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