Central Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Rockford
Tract 17201003300 · Winnebago County, IL · pop 4,050 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 17201003300 sits in the Central Park area of Rockford eviction risk, IL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. It is home to 4,050 residents. Food insecurity runs 44.4% against 17.8% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Rockford and the region
Centroid at 42.2949, -89.1067 · click any tract to drill in
Why Central Park scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Central Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 82%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 37%Grade C
- 35%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 Central Park. 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.
- 32.8%Housing insecurity
- 24.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 44.4%Food insecurity
- 49.6%SNAP enrollment
- 22.0%Transit barriers
- 19.4%No health insurance
- 24.0%Frequent mental distress
- 45.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Central Park
28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Housing insecurity runs 32.8% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 2/10. On the high side, economic stress reads 7.9/10.
Cost burden runs 51% here against 44.4% across Winnebago County. Against the Winnebago County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.
At $1,126 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Rockford commands. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 3/10. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Rockford. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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