Berger Eviction Risk: Elevated , Dolton

Against Cook County at 45.6%, around two-thirds of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.

Housing insecurity runs 35.6% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 40%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 27.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $41,786, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.8/10. Court records carry 1,468 eviction filings across 15 observed years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 23.5% of renter households.

In a typical year about 12.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

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.